Player Dossier

2013-2017

Northwestern

Hunter Niswander

P • 6'5" • 243 lbs • Peninsula, OH, USA

Impact contributor

Hunter Niswander shows a productive multi-phase profile across the tracked sample.

Usage / Role

Role sample still building

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Impact Production

Production sample still building

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Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

85

Elite ceiling indicators

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2014 Regular Season · Northwestern

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Northwestern
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Michigan

Player 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...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2013 · Rating 0.7886

Woodridge · Peninsula, OH

Committed To
Northwestern
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2013

Hunter Niswander, P. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2014 Regular Season · Northwestern. Hunter Niswander shows a productive multi-phase profile across the tracked sample.

Quick Answers

Hunter Niswander quick answers

Latest team and position
Northwestern · P
Career Touchdowns
0
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 8 entries · 41 games
Best season
2014 Regular Season · Northwestern
Top game
Michigan
Recruit profile
2-star · Woodridge · Northwestern
High school pipeline
Woodridge · 1 FBS recruit · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 96 · Class 2017

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTDPrimaryOverall
2013 Regular SeasonNorthwestern000-
2014 Regular SeasonNorthwestern200100
2015 PostseasonNorthwestern1300100
2015 Regular SeasonNorthwestern1300100
2016 PostseasonNorthwestern1300100
2016 Regular SeasonNorthwestern1300100
2017 PostseasonNorthwestern1300100
2017 Regular SeasonNorthwestern1300100

Related Context

Hunter Niswander played P for Northwestern. Across 5 tracked seasons, Hunter Niswander recorded 1 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2015 with Northwestern.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2014 Regular Season

Northwestern paired 0 primary output with — efficiency.

Supporting note

2015 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with — efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2017 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Tennessee

Loss with a strong all-around stat line. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

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2015 Postseason · Northwestern

Games

13

Primary Metric / G

0

Efficiency

Usage

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Tennessee

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Tennessee: 0. Stanford: 0. Eastern Illinois: 0. Duke: 0. Ball State: 0. Minnesota: 0. Michigan: 0. Iowa: 0. Nebraska: 0. Penn State: 0. Purdue: 0. Wisconsin: 0. Illinois: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.

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Split Comparison

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Wins0 · Games = 10 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 3 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

13 games

Featured metric

Touchdowns

Top game by takeover score

Tennessee

Best efficiency game

— vs Tennessee

Result
Fri 1/1@ TennesseeL 6-45
Sat 11/28@ IllinoisW 24-14
Sat 11/21@ WisconsinW 13-7
Sat 11/14vs PurdueW 21-14
Sat 11/7vs Penn StateW 23-21
Sat 10/24@ NebraskaW 30-28
Sat 10/17vs IowaL 10-40
Sat 10/10@ MichiganL 0-38
Sat 10/3vs MinnesotaW 27-0
Sun 9/27vs Ball StateW 24-19
Sat 9/19@ DukeW 19-10
Sat 9/12vs Eastern IllinoisW 41-0
Sat 9/5vs StanfordW 16-6

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

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    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

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games