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#47 Marshall Nichols

Marshall Nichols - Football - Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Year Senior
Height 6-2
Weight 220
Hometown Atlanta, Ga.
High School Holy Innocents Episcopal School
Last School UNLV
Major M.S. - Economics
Marshall Nichols - Football - Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

UNLV (2022-24): A Ray Guy Award candidate (nation’s top punter) and two-time honorable-mention all-Mountain West Conference selection at UNLV … Averaged 44.3 yards per punt with 12 kicks of 50 yards or more and 20 downed inside the opponents’ 20 yard line as a junior in 2024 … Recorded the second-longest punt in UNLV history with a 79-yarder versus Nevada (Nov. 30, 2024) … Helped lead the Rebels to an 11-3 record, Mountain West Conference championship game appearance and win in the LA Bowl in ’24 … Put together one of the best seasons in UNLV history as a sophomore in 2023, averaging 47.1 yards per punt (good for sixth nationally) with 22 traveling 50-plus yards and 18 downed inside the 20 yard line … 47.1-yard average was the second-best in UNLV history, behind only Randall Cunningham’s 47.5-yard average in 1984 … Averaged at least 42 yards per punt in 13-of-14 games in 2023, including three games where he averaged more than 50 yards per punt (53.0 vs. Colorado State, 53.3 vs. Boise State in the MWC title game and 52.7 vs. Kansas in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl, which was a UNLV bowl record) … Helped UNLV to a 9-5 record, MWC championship game appearance and bowl berth in ’23 … Averaged 42.4 yards per punt as a redshirt freshman in 2022 … Punted 164 times for 7,297 yards, good for a 44.5-yard average, over three seasons at UNLV … Member of academic all-Mountain West Team and UNLV Dean’s List.

Mississippi State (2021): Did not see game action and redshirted as a true freshman.

High School: Ranked as one of the nation’s top punters coming out of Atlanta’s Holy Innocents Episcopal School by the Chris Sailer Kicking School … Named to MaxPreps’ Small School all-America team as a senior in 2020 … Two-time all-state selection … Coached by Sam Lialios.

Personal: Graduated from UNLV with a bachelor’s degree in management … Pursuing a master’s degree in economics at Georgia Tech.

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