2021 Football Roster

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91 Chandler Staton

  • Position Kicker
  • Height 5-11
  • Weight 195
  • Class Super Senior
  • Hometown Gainesville, Ga.
  • High School Gainesville

Biography

Career: First-team All-American from PFN and Lou Groza Award semifinalist in 2021 … Ends career at No. 5 in FBS history with 464 career kicking points and No. 3 with 272 extra points … App State career leader in points (464), field goals (64), field goal percentage (79.0, 64 of 81), extra points (272) and extra point percentage (99.3) … App State single-season record holder in field goal percentage (95.2, 20-for-21) and field goals (20) with two seasons at 100 percent on extra points … School records for consecutive field goals made (18) and consecutive extra points made (148 to open career) … Sun Belt career leader for points, extra points while holding the conference’s single-season record for field goal percentage (minimum of 10 attempts), extra points (72) and extra point percentage (tied for first) … Went 21 of 23 on field goals from between 40 and 49 yards ... Accounted for four of the top seven kicking points seasons in program history ... Career-long make of 53 yards came against Georgia Southern in 2017 ... In six seasons in Boone, App State went 62-17 with four Sun Belt titles (2016-19), an additional Sun Belt East Division title (2021) and five bowl wins (2016-20).
 
2021: First-team All-American from PFN and Groza Award semifinalist … First-team All-Sun Belt … Went 20 of 21 on field goals and 57 of 57 on extra points for a league-leading 117 points … App State single-season record holder in field goal percentage (95.2) and field goals made (20) with a second season at 100 percent on extra points … Hit 24-yard field goal as time expired in 30-27 win against Coastal Carolina … Also hit a 45-yard FG to turn a 30-28 deficit into a 31-30 lead with 5:45 left in the Marshall win and added a 48-yard field goal at Georgia State … Made first 16 field goals of 2021 (extending overall streak to 18) before streak ended with a 1-for-2 effort at Troy … With a 31-yard field goal in the third quarter against ULM, took over sole possession of the school record for career field goals, breaking a tie with Bjorn Nittmo, who made 55 from 1985-88 … Went 6 of 6 on field goals from between 40 and 49 yards.
 
2020: In 12 games, went 13 of 19 on field goals and 51 of 52 on extra points to finish season with 90 points (sixth-best kicking points season in program history) … Named Sun Belt Special Teams Player of the Week after making three field goals, including go-ahead, season-long kicks of 44 and 45 yards, at Coastal Carolina … Went 2-for-2 on field goals (33, 37) in win at Georgia Southern ... Preseason fourth-team All-Sun Belt from Phil Steele.

2019: Went 11 of 16 on field goals and 72 of 73 on extra points to score 105 points (third in the Sun Belt, third-most in a season by an App State kicker) … Also kicked off and had 29 touchbacks on 97 kicks, but opponents averaged just 19.0 yards per return … School-record and Sun Belt-record streak of consecutive PAT makes to begin his career reached 148 before ending in the regular season finale at Troy … With 72 successful PATs, had the second-most in a single season by an App State kicker (after Julian Rauch’s 76 in 2007) … Went five of six on field goals of 40 yards or longer, making a season-long kick of 47 yards in the first half of the 20-15 win at South Carolina … Also hit a 40-yarder at South Carolina … Made two field goals at North Carolina on attempts of 31 and 43 yards … Made three field goals (19, 34, 46 yards) at South Alabama … Made tackles against Texas State and against Louisiana in the Sun Belt Championship Game.
 
2018: Went 12 of 16 on field goals and 61 of 61 on extra points to total 97 points … Had second-half field goals of 42, 42 and a season-long 43 yards in the Sun Belt Championship Game, with the last kick in rainy conditions giving App State a 30-19 lead with 2:09 remaining … At 61-for-61, tied Zach Matics (2015) for most PATs made in a season without a miss … Had a touchback on his only kickoff attempt.

2017: Made his debut vs. Savannah State and became the primary kicker late in the seventh game before attempting his first field goal in Game 8 ... Went 8 of 9 on FGs and 31 of 31 on PATs. Was 6 of 6 on FGs in the final five games of the regular season and 2 of 3 in the first half of the Dollar General Bowl … His 53-yard field goal to end the first half vs. Georgia Southern ranked as the longest made field goal by a Sun Belt kicker in 2017 and was the sixth-longest in school history. It was the longest for an App State kicker since Mark Wright converted a record-setting kick of 57 yards in 2000 … In his field-goal debut against UMass, made a 40-yard kick to tie the game in the third quarter and a tiebreaking kick in the fourth … HIt a 42-yarder at Georgia State ... Made a PAT vs. Savannah State and kicked the final PAT vs. Coastal Carolina.

2016: Redshirted

High School: Began prep career at North Georgia Christian playing eight-man football before finishing his career at Gainesville ... Made a 48-yard field goal during a 29-26 rivalry win against Flowery Branch as a senior ... Went 13 of 17 on FGs as a senior after going 9-for-9 as a junior.

Personal: Father, John, worked at the Gainesville Fire Department with the father of former App State teammate Devan Stringer.

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Historical Player Information

  • 57

    2016Freshman

    Kicker
    5'11" 180 lbs
    57
  • 91

    2017Redshirt Freshman

    Kicker
    5'11" 180 lbs
    91
  • 91

    2018Sophomore

    Kicker
    5'11" 184 lbs
    91
  • 91

    2019Junior

    Kicker
    5'11" 190 lbs
    91
  • 91

    2020Senior

    Kicker
    5'11" 190 lbs
    91
  • 91

    2021Super Senior

    Kicker
    5'11" 195 lbs
    91