Player Career

Hunter Niswander Career Story

Career story, signature performances, transfer context, and season arc are grouped for biography-style searches.

Player Story

Hunter Niswander story

Hunter Niswander built his college career from 2013 through 2017 as a punter from Peninsula, OH wearing No. 96, spending time with Northwestern. The clearest part of Hunter Niswander's career was his field-position work: 230 punts, 9,305 punting yards, and 1 punt inside the 20 across 41 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2015 with Northwestern. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Special-teams careers depend on repeatable opportunity, not just one highlight. His career also includes 1 tackle, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 41 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Northwestern.

The arc is straightforward: Hunter Niswander moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    Northwestern

    2013-2017

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

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SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2013 Regular SeasonNorthwestern0
2014 Regular SeasonNorthwestern00
2015 PostseasonNorthwestern00
2015 Regular SeasonNorthwestern00
2016 PostseasonNorthwestern00
2016 Regular SeasonNorthwestern00
2017 PostseasonNorthwestern00
2017 Regular SeasonNorthwestern00

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Michigan

Week 11 · L 9-10 · Conference game

Loss with a strong all-around stat line.

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

0 primary-metric impact.

#2

@ Iowa

Week 10 · L 7-48 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Loss with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#3

@ Tennessee

Week 1 · L 6-45 · Postseason

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Loss with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#4

@ Illinois

Week 13 · W 24-14 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Win with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#5

@ Wisconsin

Week 12 · W 13-7 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Win with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2014 Regular Season · Northwestern

0 primary output · efficiency · usage

100

#2

2015 Postseason · Northwestern

100

0 primary · efficiency · usage

#3

2015 Regular Season · Northwestern

100

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

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Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games