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Player Dossier
2013-2017East Carolina
P • 5'11" • 217 lbs • Fairview Heights, IL, USA
Austin Barnes shows a productive multi-phase profile across the tracked sample.
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Role sample still building
Impact Production
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Production sample still building
Reliability
100
Regular contributor with several takeover games
Star Power
85
Elite ceiling indicators
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2013 Regular Season · Eastern Michigan
Snapshot
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...
Read the storyAustin 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.
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Season Ledger
| Season | Team | Games | TD | Primary | Overall |
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| 2013 Regular Season | Eastern Michigan | 9 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| 2014 Regular Season | Eastern Michigan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| 2015 Regular Season | Eastern Michigan | 10 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| 2016 Postseason | Eastern Michigan | 13 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| 2016 Regular Season | Eastern Michigan | 13 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| 2017 Regular Season | East Carolina | 11 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
Related Context
Austin Barnes is listed as a P for Eastern Michigan and East Carolina. Detailed college production data is limited on CFB Track.
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.
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Career value stayed steady
2017 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.
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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.
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Games
11
Primary Metric / G
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Efficiency
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Usage
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Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
Cincinnati
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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
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11 games
Featured metric
Touchdowns
Top game by takeover score
Cincinnati
Best efficiency game
— vs Cincinnati
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| Sat 11/18 | vs Cincinnati | W 48-20 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sun 11/12 | vs Tulane | L 24-31 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 11/4 | @ Houston | L 27-52 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 10/21 | vs BYU | W 33-17 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 10/14 | @ UCF | L 21-63 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 10/7 | vs Temple | L 10-34 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 9/30 | vs South Florida | L 31-61 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sun 9/24 | @ UConn | W 41-38 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 9/16 | vs Virginia Tech | L 17-64 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 9/9 | @ West Virginia | L 20-56 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 9/2 | vs James Madison | L 14-34 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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 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.
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Eastern Michigan
2013-2016
Opening stop
East Carolina
2017
Final stop
Season Value Progression
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
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| 2013 Regular Season | Eastern Michigan | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2014 Regular Season | Eastern Michigan | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2015 Regular Season | Eastern Michigan | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2016 Postseason | Eastern Michigan | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2016 Regular Season | Eastern Michigan | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2017 Regular Season | East Carolina | 0 | — | — | 0 |
#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
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Touchdowns
0 takeover
Loss with a strong all-around stat line.
0 primary-metric impact.
#5
@ Buffalo
Week 6 · L 14-42 · Conference game
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Touchdowns
0 takeover
Loss with a strong all-around stat line.
0 primary-metric impact.
#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
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
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10+ tackle games
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