2019 Football Roster
Roster
Hofrichter, Sterling

Jersey Number 10
Sterling Hofrichter
- Position:
- Punter/Placekicker
- Height:
- 5-9
- Weight:
- 199
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- Valrico, Fla.
- High School:
- Armwood
Bio
Career Overview: Syracuse’s starting punter for all 49 games from 2016-19, succeeding 2016 NFL draftee Riley Dixon … Four-time Ray Guy Award candidate as the nation's top punter ... One of three finalists for the award as a senior ... Voted to seven different All-America teams in 2019 to become the second Syracuse punter to earn All-America recognition, joining Pat O'Neill (1991, 1993) ... 2016 Athlon Sports Freshman All-American ... Three-time All-ACC performer (2016, 2018, 2019) ... First player in team history to earn All-ACC First Team honors multiple times (2018, 2019) … Two-time All-ECAC selection ... Served as Syracuse’s special teams captain for three straight seasons (2017-19) ... Third three-year captain in program history (Robert Adams, 1894-96; Zaire Franklin, 2015-17) ... Ended his career No. 1 all-time at Syracuse in punting yardage (11,651), second in gross average (43.27) and second in number of punts (270) ... Hofrichter's 11,651 punting yards and 270 punts were No. 5 and No. 8, respectively, in ACC history at the conclusion of 2019 ... Punted for the National team at the 2020 NFLPA Collegiate Bowl, kicking four times for 134 yards (33.5 avg.) and landing two inside the 20-yard line ... Attended the 2020 NFL Scouting Combine ... 2019 All-ACC Academic Team selection ... Five-time member of the SU Athletic Director's Honor Roll ... Redshirted in 2015 ... Four letters.
Senior Year (2019): Named a first-team All-American by Pro Football Focus and Bleacher Report ... Also collected All-America honors from the FWAA (second team), USA Today (second team), Phil Steele (second team), Associated Press (third team) and Athlon Sports (third team) ... First Ray Guy Award finalist in school history ... All-ACC First Team ... Associated Press All-ACC First Team ... All-ECAC selection ... One of the 10 finalists for the 2019 Senior CLASS Award for excellence in the four areas of competition, classroom, character and community ... Winner of the team's Joe Alexander Award for excellence in football, scholarship and citizenship ... Elected Syracuse's special teams captain for the third straight season ... Five-time selection to the Ray Guy Award "Ray's 8" weekly honor roll (Sept. 3, Sept. 16, Sept. 23, Sept. 30, Nov. 4) ... Named ACC Specialist of the Week twice (Sept. 16, Sept. 30) ... Handled kickoffs for the second straight year and served as SU's backup placekicker for the third year in a row ... Helped Syracuse lead the ACC for the third consecutive season and finish No. 3 nationally in net punting average (43.03) ... Punted 69 times for 3,026 yards (43.9 avg.) with only two touchbacks ... Had 22 punts of 50+ yards ... 85.5 percent (59-69) of Hofrichter's punts were not returned, including 36 fair catches ... Led the ACC with a 2.9 touchback percentage (2-69) ... Second in the conference in overall punting yardage (3,026) and punts downed inside the 20-yard line (29) to Wake Forest's Dom Maggio (3,464 yards, 30 I20) ... Hofrichter's performance aided a Syracuse punt coverage team that ranked fifth nationally in punt return yardage defense (1.7 ypr) and set the school single-season record for the fewest punt return yards allowed (17) ... Averaged 61.0 yards on 64 kickoffs (42 touchbacks) and made three tackles in coverage ... Averaged 49.2 yards on six punts in Syracuse's season-opening shutout at Liberty (8/31), placing four inside the 20 and hitting three that went at least 50 yards ... Against Clemson (9/14), punted nine times for a season-high 470 yards (52.2 avg.), including tying his career long with a 65-yard punt ... A personal-best six of his kicks traveled 50+ yards, including five fair catches ... His 52.2-yard average against the Tigers was a career high and a Syracuse single-game record for a punter with more than five attempts ... Named the Ray Guy Award Punter of the Week and the ACC Specialist of the Week for the performance ... Against Holy Cross (9/28), averaged 43.0 yards on five punts and tied his season best with four inside the 20-yard line ... Also booted a career-long, 52-yard field goal against the Crusaders to earn ACC Specialist of the Week honors for the second time in three weeks ... Punted seven times for 307 yards (43.9 avg.) at NC State (10/10), forcing a season-high six fair catches with two 50+ yard punts ... Against Pittsburgh (10/18), booted the ball seven times for 288 yards (41.1 avg.), including a 55-yard punt ... At Florida State (10/26), had six punts for 259 yards (43.2 avg.), including five fair catches, two 50-yard punts and two punts inside the 20 ... Averaged 48.5 yards on four punts versus Boston College (11/2) ... Punted five times for 227 yards (45.4 avg.) against Wake Forest (11/30) in his final college game to eclipse Brendan Carney (11,534 yards) as the program's all-time leader in punting yards ... Five of Hofrichter's punts against the Demon Deacons were fair caught, two landed inside the 20 and two traveled a minimum of 50 yards ... All-ACC Academic Team selection ... Member of the ACC Honor Roll ... Named to the Fall 2019 SU Athletic Director's Honor Roll.
Junior Year (2018): All-ACC First Team ... Associated Press All-ACC First Team ... All-ECAC First Team … USA Today Second Team Midseason All-American ... Recipient of the team’s Joe Szombathy Award as the most outstanding special teams player ... Voted special teams captain for the second year in a row ... Candidate for the Ray Guy Award ... Named to the Ray Guy Award “Ray’s 8” weekly honor roll three times (Sept. 5, Sept. 24, Oct. 1) ... Also handled kickoffs and served as the backup placekicker ... Ranked second in the ACC in gross punting average (42.9) ... Catalyst for a Syracuse unit that led the conference in net punting average (39.1) for the second year in a row ... Punted 67 times for 2,874 yards with four touchbacks … Led the ACC with 26 punts inside the 20-yard line … Had at least one 50+ yard punt in 10 out of 13 games … Second in the conference behind Florida State’s Logan Tyler (23) with 17 punts of at least 50 yards … Averaged 60.2 yards on 101 kickoffs to assist a Syracuse coverage team that ranked first in the ACC in kickoff return yardage defense (18.3 ypr) ... Punted four times for 175 yards (43.8 avg.), with three inside the 20 and a 51-yard boot, at Western Michigan (8/31) … Averaged 44.0 yards on two punts, neither of which were returned, versus Wagner (9/8) … Against Connecticut (9/22), averaged 47.2 yards per punt on five kicks, including three inside the 20 and two of 50+ yards ... Averaged a season-high 48.6 yards on seven punts at Clemson (9/29), including a season-high four that landed inside the 20 and three that traveled at least 50 yards … Kicked a season-high eight times for 361 yards (45.1 avg.) and matched his yearly best with three punts of at least 50 yards, including two 58-yarders … At Wake Forest (11/3), had seven punts for 288 yards (41.1 avg.), including three inside the 20 and two that traveled at least 50 yards … Punted seven times for 267 yards (38.1 avg.) with three boots inside the 20 versus Notre Dame (11/17) ... Hit four punts for 170 yards (42.5 avg.), including a 56-yarder, against Boston College (11/24) ... Also made two tackles and forced a fumble on a kickoff against the Eagles … Member of the Spring 2019 SU Athletic Director’s Honor Roll.
Sophomore Year (2017): Ray Guy Award candidate ... Syracuse’s special teams captain and the fifth sophomore captain in program history ... Also served as the team’s backup placekicker ... Ranked seventh in the ACC in punting average (43.2) ... Key performer on a unit that was No. 1 in the ACC (10th nationally) in net punting average (41.3) and led the conference (fourth nationally) in punt return yardage defense (2.67 avg.) ... Punted 57 times for 2,462 yards, only nine of which were returned ... Connected on 2-of-3 (.667) field goals and averaged 60.6 yards on five kickoffs ... Had 10 punts that traveled at least 50 yards ... Landed 35.1 percent (20-57) of his punts inside the 20-yard line, the third-best mark in the ACC behind NC State’s A.J. Cole (42.6) and Virginia’s Lester Coleman (38.7) ... Also third in the conference in touchback percentage (7.0, 4-57), trailing Georgia Tech’s Pressley Harvin III (2.0) and Louisville’s Mason King (4.5) ... Against Central Connecticut State (9/1), averaged 39.7 yards on three punts (all of which were fair caught) with one inside the 20 ... Attempted the first two field goals of his career versus the Blue Devils, splitting the uprights from 27 yards out and missing from 51 yards ... Also converted the first PAT of his career and kicked off three times in the contest ... Averaged a season-high 51.0 yards per kick on seven punts versus Central Michigan (9/16), including a season-long boot of 64 yards ... A season-best four punts went at least 50 yards against Chippewas and three landed inside the 20 ... At LSU (9/23), punted seven times for 327 yards (46.7 avg.) and tied his personal best with five punts inside the 20, including four that were downed inside the 10 ... Three of Hofrichter’s punts against the Tigers traveled at least 50 yards ... At NC State (9/30), averaged 47.0 yards on three punts, made a career-long, 38-yard field goal, and kicked off twice ... Averaged 38.6 yards on five punts, including four that were fair caught, against Clemson (10/13) ... At Florida State (11/4), punted six times for 263 yards (43.8 avg.), placing two inside the 20 ... At Louisville (11/18), had six punts for 265 yards (44.2 avg.), including a 59-yarder, and three that were downed inside the 20-yard line.
Freshman Year (2016): Earned first-team Freshman All-America honors from Athlon Sports ... All-ACC Third Team (Coaches) ... All-ACC Honorable Mention (Media) ... One of eight freshmen to make the 66-player list of candidates for the Ray Guy Award ... Tied with North Carolina’s Tom Sheldon for second nationally among freshmen with an average of 42.7 yards per punt (Penn State’s Blake Gillikin led all rookies at 42.8) ... Tied Mike Shafer (2001) for second on the SU season record list for most punts (77) … Ranked second in school single-season history for most punting yards (3,289) ... Second in the ACC to Boston College’s Mike Knoll (94 punts for 3,601 yards) in both number of punts and yardage ... Matched UVa’s Nicholas Conte for the ACC lead with 23 punts of 50+ yards ... Tied for third in the ACC with 24 punts inside the 20 ... Had a touchback percentage of 3.9 percent (3-77) ... Made his college debut against Colgate (9/2) and averaged 45.3 yards on three punts, including two that were fair caught, with one inside the 20 ... Set career highs for punts (11) and yards (489) versus Louisville (9/9) ... Had a season-high five 50+ yard punts against the Cardinals ... At Wake Forest (10/8), punted 10 times for 415 yards (41.5 avg.) with two punts of at least 50 yards and two inside the 20 ... Served as SU’s special teams captain against Virginia Tech (10/15) and averaged a season-best 48.7 yards on three punts, including a 56-yarder ... Against NC State (11/12), averaged 47.3 yards on six punts, including a career-long boot of 65 yards … Three of his kicks traveled more than 50 yards and two landed inside the 20 ... Punted nine times for 400 yards (44.4 avg.), tied his season high with five punts of 50+ yards and set a personal best by placing five inside the 20-yard line, versus Florida State (11/19) ... Averaged 46.8 yards on five punts and kicked off once for 55 yards at Pittsburgh (11/26) ... ACC Honor Roll selection … Member of the SU Athletic Director’s Honor Roll both semesters.
2015: Redshirt season … Member of the SU Athletic Director’s Honor Roll in the fall.
High School: Kicker and punter for head coach Sean Callahan … 2014 Florida Class 6A All-State First Team selection … Ranked the sixth-best kicker and ninth-best punter by Kohl’s Kicking … In 2014, helped lead the Hawks to a 15-1 record and a berth in the Class 6A state championship game … As a senior, made eight field goals, 61 PATs and averaged 40.1 yards per punt … In 2013, helped Armwood reach the Class 6A state title game … Made 17 field goals and 131 PATs in his career.
Personal: Sterling James Hofrichter … Born in December 1996 in Jacksonville, Florida … Son of Bill and Debbie Hofrichter … Two brothers, one sister … Sister, Erin, was a swimmer at the University of North Florida … Brother, Jonathan, was a swimmer at the University of Tampa ... Holds a bachelor’s degree in health and exercise science … Competed as a graduate student in 2019, pursuing a master’s degree in public health.
Senior Year (2019): Named a first-team All-American by Pro Football Focus and Bleacher Report ... Also collected All-America honors from the FWAA (second team), USA Today (second team), Phil Steele (second team), Associated Press (third team) and Athlon Sports (third team) ... First Ray Guy Award finalist in school history ... All-ACC First Team ... Associated Press All-ACC First Team ... All-ECAC selection ... One of the 10 finalists for the 2019 Senior CLASS Award for excellence in the four areas of competition, classroom, character and community ... Winner of the team's Joe Alexander Award for excellence in football, scholarship and citizenship ... Elected Syracuse's special teams captain for the third straight season ... Five-time selection to the Ray Guy Award "Ray's 8" weekly honor roll (Sept. 3, Sept. 16, Sept. 23, Sept. 30, Nov. 4) ... Named ACC Specialist of the Week twice (Sept. 16, Sept. 30) ... Handled kickoffs for the second straight year and served as SU's backup placekicker for the third year in a row ... Helped Syracuse lead the ACC for the third consecutive season and finish No. 3 nationally in net punting average (43.03) ... Punted 69 times for 3,026 yards (43.9 avg.) with only two touchbacks ... Had 22 punts of 50+ yards ... 85.5 percent (59-69) of Hofrichter's punts were not returned, including 36 fair catches ... Led the ACC with a 2.9 touchback percentage (2-69) ... Second in the conference in overall punting yardage (3,026) and punts downed inside the 20-yard line (29) to Wake Forest's Dom Maggio (3,464 yards, 30 I20) ... Hofrichter's performance aided a Syracuse punt coverage team that ranked fifth nationally in punt return yardage defense (1.7 ypr) and set the school single-season record for the fewest punt return yards allowed (17) ... Averaged 61.0 yards on 64 kickoffs (42 touchbacks) and made three tackles in coverage ... Averaged 49.2 yards on six punts in Syracuse's season-opening shutout at Liberty (8/31), placing four inside the 20 and hitting three that went at least 50 yards ... Against Clemson (9/14), punted nine times for a season-high 470 yards (52.2 avg.), including tying his career long with a 65-yard punt ... A personal-best six of his kicks traveled 50+ yards, including five fair catches ... His 52.2-yard average against the Tigers was a career high and a Syracuse single-game record for a punter with more than five attempts ... Named the Ray Guy Award Punter of the Week and the ACC Specialist of the Week for the performance ... Against Holy Cross (9/28), averaged 43.0 yards on five punts and tied his season best with four inside the 20-yard line ... Also booted a career-long, 52-yard field goal against the Crusaders to earn ACC Specialist of the Week honors for the second time in three weeks ... Punted seven times for 307 yards (43.9 avg.) at NC State (10/10), forcing a season-high six fair catches with two 50+ yard punts ... Against Pittsburgh (10/18), booted the ball seven times for 288 yards (41.1 avg.), including a 55-yard punt ... At Florida State (10/26), had six punts for 259 yards (43.2 avg.), including five fair catches, two 50-yard punts and two punts inside the 20 ... Averaged 48.5 yards on four punts versus Boston College (11/2) ... Punted five times for 227 yards (45.4 avg.) against Wake Forest (11/30) in his final college game to eclipse Brendan Carney (11,534 yards) as the program's all-time leader in punting yards ... Five of Hofrichter's punts against the Demon Deacons were fair caught, two landed inside the 20 and two traveled a minimum of 50 yards ... All-ACC Academic Team selection ... Member of the ACC Honor Roll ... Named to the Fall 2019 SU Athletic Director's Honor Roll.
Junior Year (2018): All-ACC First Team ... Associated Press All-ACC First Team ... All-ECAC First Team … USA Today Second Team Midseason All-American ... Recipient of the team’s Joe Szombathy Award as the most outstanding special teams player ... Voted special teams captain for the second year in a row ... Candidate for the Ray Guy Award ... Named to the Ray Guy Award “Ray’s 8” weekly honor roll three times (Sept. 5, Sept. 24, Oct. 1) ... Also handled kickoffs and served as the backup placekicker ... Ranked second in the ACC in gross punting average (42.9) ... Catalyst for a Syracuse unit that led the conference in net punting average (39.1) for the second year in a row ... Punted 67 times for 2,874 yards with four touchbacks … Led the ACC with 26 punts inside the 20-yard line … Had at least one 50+ yard punt in 10 out of 13 games … Second in the conference behind Florida State’s Logan Tyler (23) with 17 punts of at least 50 yards … Averaged 60.2 yards on 101 kickoffs to assist a Syracuse coverage team that ranked first in the ACC in kickoff return yardage defense (18.3 ypr) ... Punted four times for 175 yards (43.8 avg.), with three inside the 20 and a 51-yard boot, at Western Michigan (8/31) … Averaged 44.0 yards on two punts, neither of which were returned, versus Wagner (9/8) … Against Connecticut (9/22), averaged 47.2 yards per punt on five kicks, including three inside the 20 and two of 50+ yards ... Averaged a season-high 48.6 yards on seven punts at Clemson (9/29), including a season-high four that landed inside the 20 and three that traveled at least 50 yards … Kicked a season-high eight times for 361 yards (45.1 avg.) and matched his yearly best with three punts of at least 50 yards, including two 58-yarders … At Wake Forest (11/3), had seven punts for 288 yards (41.1 avg.), including three inside the 20 and two that traveled at least 50 yards … Punted seven times for 267 yards (38.1 avg.) with three boots inside the 20 versus Notre Dame (11/17) ... Hit four punts for 170 yards (42.5 avg.), including a 56-yarder, against Boston College (11/24) ... Also made two tackles and forced a fumble on a kickoff against the Eagles … Member of the Spring 2019 SU Athletic Director’s Honor Roll.
Sophomore Year (2017): Ray Guy Award candidate ... Syracuse’s special teams captain and the fifth sophomore captain in program history ... Also served as the team’s backup placekicker ... Ranked seventh in the ACC in punting average (43.2) ... Key performer on a unit that was No. 1 in the ACC (10th nationally) in net punting average (41.3) and led the conference (fourth nationally) in punt return yardage defense (2.67 avg.) ... Punted 57 times for 2,462 yards, only nine of which were returned ... Connected on 2-of-3 (.667) field goals and averaged 60.6 yards on five kickoffs ... Had 10 punts that traveled at least 50 yards ... Landed 35.1 percent (20-57) of his punts inside the 20-yard line, the third-best mark in the ACC behind NC State’s A.J. Cole (42.6) and Virginia’s Lester Coleman (38.7) ... Also third in the conference in touchback percentage (7.0, 4-57), trailing Georgia Tech’s Pressley Harvin III (2.0) and Louisville’s Mason King (4.5) ... Against Central Connecticut State (9/1), averaged 39.7 yards on three punts (all of which were fair caught) with one inside the 20 ... Attempted the first two field goals of his career versus the Blue Devils, splitting the uprights from 27 yards out and missing from 51 yards ... Also converted the first PAT of his career and kicked off three times in the contest ... Averaged a season-high 51.0 yards per kick on seven punts versus Central Michigan (9/16), including a season-long boot of 64 yards ... A season-best four punts went at least 50 yards against Chippewas and three landed inside the 20 ... At LSU (9/23), punted seven times for 327 yards (46.7 avg.) and tied his personal best with five punts inside the 20, including four that were downed inside the 10 ... Three of Hofrichter’s punts against the Tigers traveled at least 50 yards ... At NC State (9/30), averaged 47.0 yards on three punts, made a career-long, 38-yard field goal, and kicked off twice ... Averaged 38.6 yards on five punts, including four that were fair caught, against Clemson (10/13) ... At Florida State (11/4), punted six times for 263 yards (43.8 avg.), placing two inside the 20 ... At Louisville (11/18), had six punts for 265 yards (44.2 avg.), including a 59-yarder, and three that were downed inside the 20-yard line.
Freshman Year (2016): Earned first-team Freshman All-America honors from Athlon Sports ... All-ACC Third Team (Coaches) ... All-ACC Honorable Mention (Media) ... One of eight freshmen to make the 66-player list of candidates for the Ray Guy Award ... Tied with North Carolina’s Tom Sheldon for second nationally among freshmen with an average of 42.7 yards per punt (Penn State’s Blake Gillikin led all rookies at 42.8) ... Tied Mike Shafer (2001) for second on the SU season record list for most punts (77) … Ranked second in school single-season history for most punting yards (3,289) ... Second in the ACC to Boston College’s Mike Knoll (94 punts for 3,601 yards) in both number of punts and yardage ... Matched UVa’s Nicholas Conte for the ACC lead with 23 punts of 50+ yards ... Tied for third in the ACC with 24 punts inside the 20 ... Had a touchback percentage of 3.9 percent (3-77) ... Made his college debut against Colgate (9/2) and averaged 45.3 yards on three punts, including two that were fair caught, with one inside the 20 ... Set career highs for punts (11) and yards (489) versus Louisville (9/9) ... Had a season-high five 50+ yard punts against the Cardinals ... At Wake Forest (10/8), punted 10 times for 415 yards (41.5 avg.) with two punts of at least 50 yards and two inside the 20 ... Served as SU’s special teams captain against Virginia Tech (10/15) and averaged a season-best 48.7 yards on three punts, including a 56-yarder ... Against NC State (11/12), averaged 47.3 yards on six punts, including a career-long boot of 65 yards … Three of his kicks traveled more than 50 yards and two landed inside the 20 ... Punted nine times for 400 yards (44.4 avg.), tied his season high with five punts of 50+ yards and set a personal best by placing five inside the 20-yard line, versus Florida State (11/19) ... Averaged 46.8 yards on five punts and kicked off once for 55 yards at Pittsburgh (11/26) ... ACC Honor Roll selection … Member of the SU Athletic Director’s Honor Roll both semesters.
2015: Redshirt season … Member of the SU Athletic Director’s Honor Roll in the fall.
High School: Kicker and punter for head coach Sean Callahan … 2014 Florida Class 6A All-State First Team selection … Ranked the sixth-best kicker and ninth-best punter by Kohl’s Kicking … In 2014, helped lead the Hawks to a 15-1 record and a berth in the Class 6A state championship game … As a senior, made eight field goals, 61 PATs and averaged 40.1 yards per punt … In 2013, helped Armwood reach the Class 6A state title game … Made 17 field goals and 131 PATs in his career.
Personal: Sterling James Hofrichter … Born in December 1996 in Jacksonville, Florida … Son of Bill and Debbie Hofrichter … Two brothers, one sister … Sister, Erin, was a swimmer at the University of North Florida … Brother, Jonathan, was a swimmer at the University of Tampa ... Holds a bachelor’s degree in health and exercise science … Competed as a graduate student in 2019, pursuing a master’s degree in public health.
Fran Brown Press Conference | Week 3 vs. Colgate
Monday, September 08
Fran Brown Press Conference
Monday, September 08
Fran Brown Postgame Press Conference
Saturday, September 06
Players Postgame vs. UConn
Saturday, September 06