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Pat McAfee

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Position:

Punter
Kickoff specialist

Personal information

Born:

May 2, 1987 (age 37)
Plum, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Height:

6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)

Weight:

233 lb (106 kg)

Career information

High school:

Plum (PA)

College:

West Virginia (2005\u20132008)

NFL draft:

2009 / round: 7 / pick: 222

Career history\n

Indianapolis Colts (2009\u20132016)

Career highlights and awards\n

First-team All-Pro (2014)
2\u00d7 Pro Bowl (2014, 2016)
PFWA All-Rookie Team (2009)
First-team All-American (2008)

NFL record

Highest career net average punting yards: 41.1^[1]

Career NFL statistics

Punts:	575
Punting yards:	26,653
Punting average:	46.4
Longest punt:	74
Inside 20:	193
Stats at Pro Football Reference

Patrick Justin McAfee (/\u02c8m\u00e6k\u0259fi/ MAK-\u0259-fee; born May 2, 1987) is an American sports analyst, color commentator, and former professional football punter and kickoff specialist. He serves as an analyst on ESPN's College GameDay, is the host of the sports talk show The Pat McAfee Show, and is signed to WWE as the color commentator for Raw and occasional wrestler.\n

McAfee was a placekicker for the West Virginia Mountaineers. He was selected by the Indianapolis Colts in the seventh round of the 2009 NFL draft. He played in Super Bowl XLIV in his rookie year, where the Colts lost against the New Orleans Saints. McAfee made two Pro Bowls, and he was an All-Pro in 2014, during his eight-year career in the National Football League (NFL).\n

Since retiring from football in February 2017, McAfee has been a football analyst. He was a guest host for Fox Sports' college and NFL broadcasts in late 2018, before being announced as part of ESPN's Thursday Night College Football team in July 2019. In addition, he makes regular appearances for Get Up!. He currently licenses The Pat McAfee Show to the ESPN network, which then simulcasts the show on ESPN+ and is also broadcast on YouTube.\n

McAfee served as a guest commentator for WWE's NXT TakeOver events in 2018,^[2] before signing a contract with the promotion in February 2019.^[3]^[4] During 2020, he feuded with Adam Cole, making his WWE NXT in-ring debut at TakeOver XXX in a loss to Cole. He served as a color commentator for major pay-per-views and SmackDown on numerous occasions and stints throughout the 2020s, only to take hiatuses to focus on his work at College GameDay from late summer to mid-late winter the next year. McAfee returned to the WWE on December 14, 2024, to call Saturday Night's Main Event with Michael Cole and Jesse Ventura in the Main Event and partnered with Cole again for commentary on Raw on Netflix in 2025.\n

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Height	Weight	40-yard dash	Wonderlic\n
5 ft 11+1⁄2 in (1.82 m)\n	228 lb (103 kg)\n	5.00 s	37^[10]\n
All values from NFL Draft^[11]^[12]\n

Year\n	Team\n	Punting\n
GP	Punts	Yds	Net Yds	Lng	Avg	Net Avg	Blk	OOB	Dn	Ins20	TB	FC	Ret	RetY	TD\n
2009	IND\n	16	64	2,837	2,416	60	44.3	37.8	0	0	7	21	6	15	36	301	0\n
2010	IND\n	15	65	2,731	2,302	66	42.0	35.4	0	3	8	21	7	22	25	289	1\n
2011	IND\n	16	88	4,098	3,488	64	46.6	39.2	1	8	11	21	3	18	48	550	1\n
2012	IND\n	16	73	3,520	2,985	64	48.2	40.3	1	10	9	26	8	14	32	375	1\n
2013	IND\n	16	76	3,499	2,963	65	46.0	38.6	1	8	15	27	7	17	29	396	1\n
2014	IND\n	16	69	3,221	2,956	61	46.7	42.8	0	7	5	30	3	19	35	205	0\n
2015	IND\n	16	85	4,052	3,546	63	47.7	41.7	0	7	13	28	6	23	36	386	3\n
2016	IND\n	16	55	2,711	2,392	74	49.3	42.7	1	7	5	19	9	17	17	139	0\n
Career	127	575	26,669	23,048	74	46.4	40.1	4	50	73	193	49	145	258	2,641	7\n

Pat McAfee
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Pat McAfee
Billed height	6 ft 1 in (185 cm)^[60]
Billed from	Indianapolis, Indiana by way of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Trained by	Rip Rogers WWE Performance Center
Debut	2020

Legend\n
\n	Led the league\n
Bold\n	Career high\n

Early life

College career

Freshman season (2005)

Sophomore season (2006)

Junior season (2007)

Senior season (2008)

Professional career

NFL career statistics

Regular season

Postseason

Post-playing career

Barstool Sports

Pat McAfee Inc.

Fox Sports

ESPN

Other appearances

Professional wrestling career

Early career

WWE (2018\u2013present)

Sporadic appearances (2018\u20132020)

Commentator (2021\u2013present)

Personal life

Philanthropy

Championships and accomplishments

See also

References

External links

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