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AJ Cole

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#6

Experience: 8 years

Height: 6-4

Age: 30

Weight: 220 lbs

College: NC State

2026 SEASON

  • PUNTS
    27
  • AVG
    51.04
  • LNG
    72
  • In 20
    11
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Punting

Field Position

GPUNTSYDSLNGAVGBLKRETRETYIN 20NET AVG
Opp 49-20 - by Yard Line231104036.7000230
Own 1-20 - by Yard Line331756258.30222051
Own 21-50 - by Yard Line92110937252010126944.1

Game Halves

GPUNTSYDSLNGAVGBLKRETRETYIN 20NET AVG
1st Half71155061500441642.6
Last Two Minutes of Half22744037000137
2nd Half8168287251.808107543.8

Home vs Road

GPUNTSYDSLNGAVGBLKRETRETYIN 20NET AVG
Home Games4116107255.40786444
Road Games51676862480562742.9

Margin of Victory

GPUNTSYDSLNGAVGBLKRETRETYIN 20NET AVG
Margin 0-7121075753.50222142.5
Margin 8-143126147251.20228647.2

Point Differential

GPUNTSYDSLNGAVGBLKRETRETYIN 20NET AVG
Ahead5126017250.10448544.4
Ahead by 1-8 Points483775647.10331343.2
Ahead by 9-16 Points2422472560117246.8
Behind463226253.70556141
Behind by 1-8 Points452636252.60336141.4
Behind by 9-16 Points11515151015146
Tied963036150.50122343.5

Quarters

GPUNTSYDSLNGAVGBLKRETRETYIN 20NET AVG
1st Quarter552456149000345
4th Quarter594577250.80332445
4th Quarter within 7452335746.60215243.6
2nd Quarter563055950.80441340.7
3rd Quarter6737162530575142.3

Stadium Surfaces

GPUNTSYDSLNGAVGBLKRETRETYIN 20NET AVG
Grass5126557254.60786544.1
Turf3136166247.40340542.8

Biography

TRANSACTIONS: Signed by Oakland Raiders as an undrafted free agent, May 6, 2019.

CAREER: Punter enters his eighth year with the Silver and Black, making the team after participating on a tryout basis at the team's rookie mini-camp in 2019…Last season (2025), punted 71 times for 3,379 yards (47.6 avg.) and downed 24 punts inside the 20-yard line…Also downed 12 punts inside the 10-yard line in 2025, tied for the fourth most in the NFL…Finished 2024 with 65 punts for 3,304 yards, establishing a single-season career-high 50.8 yards per punt, tied for the second-best mark in a single season in Raiders history (min. 50 punts)…Logged 17 punts of 60+ yards in 2024, the second most in the NFL and setting a new franchise record (since 2000)…In 2023, Cole finished with a league-leading 45.1 net punting average, the best average in a single season in Raiders history (since 1976), earning him his third-straight Pro Bowl appearance and an Associated Press first team All-Pro selection…Also ranked tied for second in the NFL in gross punting average in 2023 (50.4)…Logged 16 punts of 60-plus yards in 2023, passing Shane Lechler (14 in 2008 and 2011) for the most 60+ yard punts in a single season in Raiders history...In 2022, finished fourth in the NFL with a 48.9 gross punting average on 59 punts and was named to his second career Pro Bowl…In 2021, earned his first Pro Bowl selection after leading the NFL with a 50.0 yard average on 64 punts and placing 28 inside the 20-yard line…In 2020, appeared in all 16 contests for the second consecutive season and set a career high with an average of 40.1 net yards per punt…As a rookie in 2019, set rookie club records for punting average (46.0), net average (39.4) and punts downed inside the 20-yard line (33)…Career totals include 83 games played with 309 punts for 14,889 yards (48.2 avg.), a net average of 42.4 yards and 141 punts downed inside the 20-yard line with a long of 83 yards.

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