Justin Tucker

Justin Tucker

Tucker in January 2013
No. 9 Baltimore Ravens
Position:	Placekicker
Personal information
Date of birth:	(1989-11-21) November 21, 1989 (age 27)
Place of birth:	Houston, Texas
Height:	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight:	180 lb (82 kg)
Career information
High school:	Austin (TX) Westlake
College:	Texas
Undrafted:	2012
Career history
Baltimore Ravens (2012–present)
Roster status:	Active
Career highlights and awards
Super Bowl champion (XLVII) 2× Pro Bowl (2013, 2016) 2x First-team All-Pro (2013, 2016)
Career NFL statistics as of Week 15, 2016
Field goals: 163 Field goal attempts: 182 Field goal %: 89.6 Longest field goal: 61 Touchbacks: 261 Player stats at NFL.com

Justin Paul Tucker (born November 21, 1989) is an American football placekicker for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of Texas. He was signed by the Ravens as an undrafted free agent in 2012.

Tucker graduated from Westlake High School, outside Austin, Texas, where he was teammates with Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Nick Foles.

Tucker played for the Texas Longhorns football team while attending the University of Texas. In 2011, concluding a 118-game rivalry between Texas A&M University and the University of Texas, he kicked the game-winning field goal as time expired. Texas (then ranked No. 25) won, 27-25. He played in the 2008 U.S. Army All-American Bowl. While attending the University of Texas, Tucker majored in Music; his degree path was in Recording Technologies.

An undrafted free agent in the 2012 NFL Draft, Tucker was not selected by any of the 32 teams. However, the Baltimore Ravens signed him on May 29, 2012 to begin workouts and camp for the Ravens alongside placekicker Billy Cundiff. After impressive showings and accurate field goals during the team's preseason games, Tucker earned the starting job as the Ravens official placekicker upon Cundiff's release from his contract with Baltimore on August 26, 2012.

In his debut season, Tucker proved to be a very accurate kicker, making all 42 of his PAT attempts while missing only 3 out of his 35 Field Goals. During Week 3 against the New England Patriots, Tucker kicked a game winning field goal with 2 seconds left, giving the Ravens a 31–30 victory and their first ever regular season victory over the Patriots. On January 12, 2013, during the divisional playoff round game against the Denver Broncos, Tucker kicked a 47-yard field goal in double overtime to win the game (later known as the Mile High Miracle) and sent the Ravens to the AFC championship for the second consecutive year.