Player Dossier

2013-2017

East Carolina

Austin Barnes

P • 5'11" • 217 lbs • Fairview Heights, IL, USA

Impact contributor

Austin Barnes 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

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2013 Regular Season · Eastern Michigan

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Eastern Michigan • East Carolina
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Toledo

Player Story

Austin Barnes built his college career from 2013 through 2017 as a punter from Fairview Heights, IL wearing No. 17, spending time with East Carolina and Eastern Michigan. The clearest part of Austin Barnes' career...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2013 · Rating 0.7383

O'Fallon · O'Fallon, IL

Committed To
Eastern Michigan
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2013

Austin Barnes, P. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2013 Regular Season · Eastern Michigan. Austin Barnes shows a productive multi-phase profile across the tracked sample.

Quick Answers

Austin Barnes quick answers

Latest team and position
East Carolina · P
Career Touchdowns
0
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 6 entries · 46 games
Best season
2013 Regular Season · Eastern Michigan
Top game
Toledo
Recruit profile
2-star · O'Fallon · Eastern Michigan
High school pipeline
O'Fallon · 13 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 17 · Class 2017

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTDPrimaryOverall
2013 Regular SeasonEastern Michigan900100
2014 Regular SeasonEastern Michigan300100
2015 Regular SeasonEastern Michigan1000100
2016 PostseasonEastern Michigan1300100
2016 Regular SeasonEastern Michigan1300100
2017 Regular SeasonEast Carolina1100100

Related Context

Austin Barnes is listed as a P for Eastern Michigan and East Carolina. Detailed college production data is limited on CFB Track.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2013 Regular Season

Eastern Michigan paired 0 primary output with — efficiency.

Supporting note

2017 Regular Season 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

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Eastern Michigan, East Carolina.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Cincinnati

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

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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2017 Regular Season · East Carolina

Games

11

Primary Metric / G

0

Efficiency

Usage

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Cincinnati

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. James Madison: 0. West Virginia: 0. Virginia Tech: 0. UConn: 0. South Florida: 0. Temple: 0. UCF: 0. BYU: 0. Houston: 0. Tulane: 0. Cincinnati: 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.

Scatter view is hidden because this season does not have enough game-to-game variety yet.

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins0 · Games = 3 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 8 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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

11 games

Featured metric

Touchdowns

Top game by takeover score

Cincinnati

Best efficiency game

— vs Cincinnati

Result
Sat 11/18vs CincinnatiW 48-20
Sun 11/12vs TulaneL 24-31
Sat 11/4@ HoustonL 27-52
Sat 10/21vs BYUW 33-17
Sat 10/14@ UCFL 21-63
Sat 10/7vs TempleL 10-34
Sat 9/30vs South FloridaL 31-61
Sun 9/24@ UConnW 41-38
Sat 9/16vs Virginia TechL 17-64
Sat 9/9@ West VirginiaL 20-56
Sat 9/2vs James MadisonL 14-34

Player Story

Austin Barnes story

Austin Barnes built his college career from 2013 through 2017 as a punter from Fairview Heights, IL wearing No. 17, spending time with East Carolina and Eastern Michigan. The clearest part of Austin Barnes' career was his field-position work: 229 punts, 9,816 punting yards, and 5 punts inside the 20 across 46 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2016 with Eastern Michigan. 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. With 46 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across East Carolina and Eastern Michigan.

The arc is straightforward: Austin Barnes 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

    Eastern Michigan

    2013-2016

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    East Carolina

    2017

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

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SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2013 Regular SeasonEastern Michigan0
2014 Regular SeasonEastern Michigan00
2015 Regular SeasonEastern Michigan00
2016 PostseasonEastern Michigan00
2016 Regular SeasonEastern Michigan00
2017 Regular SeasonEast Carolina00

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Toledo

Week 10 · L 16-55 · Conference game

Loss with a strong all-around stat line.

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

0 primary-metric impact.

#2

@ Northern Illinois

Week 9 · L 20-59 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Loss with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#3

vs Ohio

Week 8 · L 28-56 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Loss with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#4

@ Army

Week 7 · L 25-50

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Loss with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#5

@ Buffalo

Week 6 · L 14-42 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Loss with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2013 Regular Season · Eastern Michigan

0 primary output · efficiency · usage

100

#2

2014 Regular Season · Eastern Michigan

100

0 primary · efficiency · usage

#3

2015 Regular Season · Eastern Michigan

100

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games