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Jersey Number 39
Jacob Hand
- Position:
- Kicker
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 175
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Mansfield, Texas
- High School:
- Mansfield
PRIOR TO TEXAS TECH
HIGH SCHOOL
PERSONAL
- Arrived at Texas Tech following three seasons at Stephen F. Austin … will have two seasons of eligibility remaining with the Red Raiders, boosting Texas Tech’s 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 … all three makes came during his 2025 sophomore season and were all from 40-plus yards … 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 (SOPHOMORE AT STEPHEN F. AUSTIN): appeared in all 14 games as a sophomore as the primary kickoff specialist and occasional placekicker … 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 … field goal versus ACU pushed SFA’s 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 … his 54-yarder versus Nicholls, meanwhile, matched the third-longest attempt all-time in the SFA record book … 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 … joined North Carolina A&T’s Andrew Brown as the only FCS kickers with multiple makes from 54-plus yards on the season.
- Remained SFA’s kickoff specialist for a second-consecutive season, booting 48 oof his 89 attempts for a touchback … totaled 5,524 yards on kickoffs, averaging 62.1 yards an attempt.
- 2024 SEASON (REDSHIRT FRESHMAN AT STEPHEN F. AUSTIN): became SFA’s main kickoff specialist during second season on campus … appeared in all 12 games that season after being called on for kickoff duty 82 times with 47 resulting in a touchback … compiled 5,108 yards on kickoff at an average of 62.3 yards an attempt.
- 2023 SEASON (FRESHMAN AT STEPHEN F. AUSTIN): redshirt season … appeared in only one game, which came early in the season at Northwestern State (9/16) … missed on his lone field goal attempt from 33 yards in the blowout win … called on to kickoff once, which went 65 yards.
HIGH SCHOOL
- Attended Mansfield High School in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex … part of a Mansfield program that played in the Class 6A Division II playoffs his senior season … earned All-District 11-6A honors as a kicker his senior year … garnered first team All-District 11-6A accolades his junior year as a punter.
PERSONAL
- Jacob Hand … son of Brent and Jaclyn Hand … has a brother, Jonah.
- Grew up playing soccer competitively before switching to football.
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