2021 (Graduate): Booted 49 punts for a total of 2027 yards for an average of 41.36 yards per attempt … dropped 26 kicks inside the 20-yard line and eight sailed at least 50 yards … booted a punt a season-long 60 yards against Texas A&M (10/16) on six attempts and four landing inside the 20-yard line … had six punts go an average of 42.5 yards, dropping four inside the 20 and sailing two over 50 yards in the season opener against Central Michigan (9/4) … four of five punts at Kentucky (9/11) landed inside the 20 … had five attempts against North Texas (10/9) sail an average of 47.2 yards, landing one inside the 20 and two surpassing the 50-yard mark … held kicks for Lou Groza Award semifinalist Harrison Mevis.
2020 (Redshirt Senior): Named to 2020-21 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll … Booted 39 punts in 2020, with 15 landing inside the 20 … also had eight punts of 50+ yards … Mizzou ranks 22nd nationally in net punting at 40.97 YPP vs. 50th last year (39.03 YPP) … named SEC Special Teams Player of the Week following the Vanderbilt game (11/28) … made seven punts with an average of 43.6 yards at South Carolina (11/21), had five land inside the 20 … made seven punts at No. 10/9 Florida (10/31) for an average of 44.6 yards with three landing inside the 20 … posted career-long punt of 66 yards vs. No. 17/16 LSU (10/10) … made three punts at Mississippi State (12/19), including a 57-yarder and one inside the 20 … had four punts for an average of 42.2 yards with one inside the 20 at No. 21/20 Tennessee (10/3).
2016-19 (at Kentucky): Four-time SEC Academic Honor Roll selection … handled kickoffs for the Wildcats in 2018 (redshirt sophomore) and 2019 (redshirt junior) … averaged 61.7 yards per kickoff in the 2018 and 2019 seasons … as a freshman in 2016, member of the Ray Guy Award watch list as UK’s primary punter … ranked third among SEC freshman punters, averaging 39.2 yards per punt.
High School: Four-star recruit rated the nation’s No. 4 punter according to Scout … earned Three Rivers Athletic Conference first-team honors as a placekicker four-straight seasons and was a first-team selection as a punter three seasons in a row … two-time first-team All-Northwest Ohio honoree … converted 38 of 40 PAT kicks and 10 of 11 field goals, including a season-long 52-yarder as a senior … averaged 39.4 yards on punts and put 11 of 32 kicks inside the 20-yard line … as a junior, averaged 40.8 yards on 41 punts, dropping 12 punts inside the 20-yard line … converted 40 of 42 PAT attempts and was 5-for-8 in FG attempts, including a school-record 53-yarder … while kicking off in 2014, had 44 of his 60 kickoffs downed for touchbacks … earned second-team all-state honors as a junior … named MaxPreps 2012 Freshman First-Team All-American … earned third-team All-Ohio Division I as a freshman … for his career, connected on 148 of 159 PAT attempts and 29 field goals … his 235 points ties him for the sixth-highest total for points by a kicker in the Ohio prep football record books … one of the Elite 88 high school seniors selected to compete in the 10th annual Offense-Defense All-American Bowl and the 2016 Ohio High Football Coaches Association North-South All-Star Classic.
Personal: Son of Angie and Patrick McKinniss … earned a bachelor’s degree from Kentucky in psychology in May 2020 … completed his master’s degree in positive coaching in December 2021.
