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Brayden Narveson
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Scottsdale, Az.
- High School:
- Desert Mountain
2023 SEASON:
• Finished the 2023 season tied for ninth in the ACC in scoring with 7.1 points per game.
• Kicked the longest FG in school history at Duke: a 57-yarder.
• Ranked fourth in the league in field goals attempted (23), fifth in field goals made (18).
• Connected on four field goals vs. UNC.
• Kicked the game-winning field goal as time expired vs. Virginia - a 33-yarder.
• Had made all of his kicks in the past seven games (9-9) before missing a pair at Wake Forest.
• Transfer kicker who was named to the preseason watch list for the Groza Award.
• Graduate transfer who joined the Wolfpack after playing the past three seasons at Western Kentucy.
• Enrolled at NC State in January of 2023.
2022 SEASON (at WKU):
• Connected on 15-21 FG attempts and remained perfect on PATs for his WKU career.
2021 SEASON (at WKU):
• Earned All-Conference USA second-team honors, he won third-team honors by PFF.
• A two-time Conference USA Special Teams Player of the Week (Two times.
• Turned in one of the best seasons by a kicker in WKU history in 2021 while helping the Hilltoppers win a Conference USA East Division Championship.
• Hit on 23-of-29 field goal attempts in 2021 with a long of 53 yards in the Hilltoppers’ win over Marshall.
• Perfect his PAT attempts, going 72-of-72.
• Scored the most points by any kicker in the country with 141, that number was also second-best among all players regardless of position.
• 10.1 points per game was sixth best in the nation, and he finished 13th in the country in field goals per game.
• 23 makes tied him for the most in a single season in WKU history.
2020 SEASON (at WKU):
• A 2020 Lou Groza Award Semifinalist
• A 2020 All-Conference USA Second Team performer, he was a PFF College Third Team All-American.
• Named to the 2020 PFF College All-CUSA First Team.
• Produced one of the most accurate campaigns in WKU’s program history.
• Made 13-of-14 field goal attempts and was a perfect 27-of-27 on extra point tries in 2020, scoring 66 total points in 12 games.
• His 93% field goal mark tied for third among all FBS kickers and ranked second for a single season all-time in WKU history
• Only one of 20 FBS kickers listed as a Lou Groza Award Semifinalist, the first Hilltopper to do so since 2015.
• Made 6-of-6 field goals in the 40-49 range and 5-of-5 from the 30-39 distance, while his 53-yarder on Oct. 3 at Middle Tennessee was the third-longest ever for a Hilltopper.
2019 SEASON (at Iowa State):
• Spent two seasons at Iowa State, going 2-for-4 with a long of 48 yards during his redshirt freshman season in 2019.
HIGH SCHOOL
• Attended Desert Mountain HS.
• Senior Stats: Connected on 10-of-15 field goal attempts as a senior, including a career-long 58 yarder.
• Honors: Named a First Team All-District, All-Region and All-State honoree as a senior. Won the Luis Zendejas Award as Kicker of the Year in Arizona in 2017.
• Rankings: No. 8 kicker in 2018 by Chris Sailer Kicking. Rated as a three-star recruit by ESPN and 247Sports, and ranked as the 12th-best kicker nationally by 247Sports.