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Jersey Number 39
Jacob Hand
- Position:
- Kicker
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 180
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Mansfield, Texas
- High School:
- Mansfield
PRIOR TO TEXAS TECH
HIGH SCHOOL
PERSONAL
- Arrived at Texas Tech following three seasons at Stephen F. Austin โฆ will have two seasons of eligibility remaining with the Red Raiders, boosting Texas Techโs specialist room with his another big leg on field goals and on kickoffs.
- Combined to make 3-of-4 field goals attempted over his 27 career games played with the Lumberjacks โฆ all three makes came during his 2025 sophomore season and were all from 40-plus yards โฆ as a kickoff specialist, booted 95 of his 172 kickoffs over his three seasons for a touchback, averaging 62.2 yards per kickoff over his career.
- 2025 SEASON (JUNIOR atย STEPHEN F. AUSTIN): appeared in all 14 games as a junior as the primary kickoff specialist and occasional placekicker โฆ was a perfect 3-of-3 on field goal attempts on the season, finding the uprights from 54 yards against Nicholls State (10/18), 56 yards versus Lamar (11/15) and then 48 yards against Abilene Christian (12/6) in the second round of the FCS playoffs โฆ field goal versus ACU pushed SFAโs lead to 41-34 with 1:56 to play in an eventual win.
- His 56-yarder against Lamar marked the second-longest successful attempt by a Lumberjack in program history, trailing only a 58-yard field goal from Chuck Rawlison against Sam Houston in 1991 โฆ his 54-yarder versus Nicholls, meanwhile, matched the third-longest attempt all-time in the SFA record book โฆ only the third SFA placekicker with multiple makes of 54-plus yards in a career and the first to do so in a single season โฆ joined North Carolina A&Tโs Andrew Brown as the only FCS kickers with multiple makes from 54-plus yards on the season.
- Remained SFAโs kickoff specialist for a second-consecutive season, booting 48 of his 89 attempts for a touchback โฆ totaled 5,524 yards on kickoffs, averaging 62.1 yards an attempt.
- 2024 SEASON (SOPHOMORE atย STEPHEN F. AUSTIN): became SFAโs main kickoff specialist during second season on campus โฆ appeared in all 12 games that season after being called on for kickoff duty 82 times with 47 resulting in a touchback โฆ compiled 5,108 yards on kickoff at an average of 62.3 yards an attempt.
- 2023 SEASON (FRESHMAN atย STEPHEN F. AUSTIN): appeared in only one game as a freshman, which came early in the season at Northwestern State (9/16) โฆ missed on his lone field goal attempt from 33 yards in the blowout win โฆ called on to kickoff once, which went 65 yards.
HIGH SCHOOL
- Attended Mansfield High School in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex โฆ part of a Mansfield program that played in the Class 6A Division II playoffs his senior season โฆ earned All-District 11-6A honors as a kicker his senior year โฆ garnered first team All-District 11-6A accolades his junior year as a punter.
PERSONAL
- Jacob Hand โฆ son of Brent and Jaclyn Hand โฆ has a brother, Jonah.
- Grew up playing soccer competitively before switching to football.
- An applied personal finance major at Texas Tech.
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