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2011: Played in all 14 games ... Kicked off 79 times for a 66.0-yard average with 31 touchbacks on the season ... Averaged 70 yards on 11 kickoffs against Appalachian State, including five touchbacks ... Had two touchbacks and averaged 64.8 yards per kickoff at ECU ... Also assisted on a tackle ... Recorded four touchbacks on five kickoffs and a 69.4 yard average in the win over Arkansas State ... Kicked off six times for a 65.0 yard average with a touchback at Marshall ... Averaged 68.5 yards on two kickoffs with a touchback against Clemson ... Assisted on a tackle ... Registered four touchbacks and averaged 64.6 yards per kickoff in the win over Miami ... Had three touchbacks out of seven kickoffs with a 64.3 yard average at Wake Forest ... Posted a 69.5 yard average with two touchbacks against BC ... Also collected a tackle ... Kicked off three times for 184 yards at Duke ... Collected four touchbacks on seven kickoffs and a 68.9 yard average at Georgia Tech ... Added two touchbacks on five kickoffs against UNC ... Attempted first career field goal, a 57-yarder to end the first half, but missed ... Averaged 68.9 yards on seven kickoffs with two touchbacks at Virginia ... Also attempted a 53-yard field goal late in the second quarter, but missed ... Had a 69.7 yard average on three kickoffs with a touchback in the ACC Championship Game against Clemson … Was thrust into field goal duties in the Sugar Bowl against Michigan after the top two kickers were suspended … Responded by making 4-of-5 kicks with a long of 43 yards.

2010: Had six touchbacks on eight kickoffs against East Carolina and collected a tackle … Averaged 69.9 yards on eight kickoffs and had four touchbacks in the Central Michigan game … Also had two tackles against CMU … Picked up three more touchbacks in the Wake Forest game … Averaged 68.8 yards on nine kickoffs against Duke and had four touchbacks … Averaged 70 yards on five kickoffs in the GT game and collected a tackle … Posted four touchbacks on seven kickoffs in the Virginia game … Stopped a big return with a tackle against FSU in the ACC title game … Led all the kickers with a 355-pound front squat … Was 1-for-5 in field goals during spring scrimmages, making a 41-yarder … Two of his misses were from 50 and 55 yards … Had two touchbacks on four kickoffs during the Maroon-White game … Also had two PATs in that game.

2009: Kicked off five times during the opener against Alabama with an average depth of just inside the 5-yard line … Kicked off nine times in the Marshall game with a pair of touchbacks … Averaged 68.7 yards on his seven kickoffs at Duke with two touchbacks … Posted five touchbacks on nine kickoffs in the Boston College game with an average depth of the 1-yard line … Carried a 68.5-yard average with a touchback on four kickoffs against UNC … Had a pair of touchbacks on eight kicks at Maryland … Had seven kickoffs against NC State with an average depth of the 2-yard line … Six of his seven kickoffs in the Chick-fil-A Bowl were taken at the goal line or in the end zone … Earned 100% Effort Awards for four of the team’s six pre-spring 6 a.m. workouts … Competed for the place-kicking duties during the spring … Kicked a 37-yard field goal in the team’s final spring scrimmage … All his misses during scrimmages were from 49 yards or more, including two attempts from 55 yards … Had two kickoffs in the Maroon-White game and missed on a 35-yard FG attempt.

2008: Took over the kickoff duties in the second game of the season … Had two touchbacks in his five kicks against Furman … Added two more on five kickoffs in the Georgia Tech game … Posted a season-high eight kickoffs against Nebraska and was in on a tackle … Collected a tackle in both the Western Kentucky and FSU games … Made two tackles against Maryland and was in on another versus Virginia … Added another tackle during Tech’s ACC title game win against Boston College … Handled 62 of the team’s 71 kickoffs over the course of the season … Averaged 62.8 yards, making the average depth the 2-yard line … Competed for the field goal job in the spring … Made a 32-yard field goal during scrimmage work … Had three kickoffs during the Maroon-White game and was 1-for-2 on extra point attempts.

High School: Lettered twice as a place-kicker for Coach Mike Williams at Central High ... Booted four field goals his senior season, including a school-record 47-yarder … A two-time first-team Section 2 all-star kicker ... Was the lone unanimous pick his senior season … Selected for the 2008 Pennsylvania East-West All-Star game ... Participated in three Kohl’s Kicking Showcases the summer before his final season … Finished second out of 160 kickers in kickoffs during one of those camps … Also a three-year letterman in soccer.

Personal: Justin Wade Myer ... Born 10/22/89 in Lancaster, PA ... Son of Gary and Chris Myer ... Is studying management.