NC State’s Chris Dunn Named a Semifinalist for the Lou Groza Award

NC State Sophomore Place Kicker Chris Dunn has been named 1 of the 20 semifinalists for the 2019 Lou Groza Award, awarded every year to the best place kicker in college football.

Congrats to @The2018PK — a @LouGrozaAward semifinalist!

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— NC State Football (@PackFootball) November 7, 2019

Dunn’s 1.88 field goals per game in 2019 (15 total) ranks 5th in the NCAA.

Back in 1996, Marc Primanti won the Lou Groza Award at NC State, when he went 20-20 for the Wolfpack.

Below is the Watch List of 30. Ten players have been cut from the list now, but I don’t know which ones specifically.

Tyler Bass, Georgia Southern
Massimo Biscardi, Coastal Carolina
Rodrigo Blankenship, Georgia
Jose Borregales, FIU
Matt Coghlin, Michigan State
Jonathan Cruz, UNC-Charlotte
Cameron Dicker, Texas
Chris Dunn, NC State
Dominik Eberle, Utah State
Logan Justus, Indiana
Alex Kessman, Pitt
Connor Limpert, Arkansas
Luke Logan, Ole Miss
Blake Lynch, Kansas State
Tucker McCann, Missouri
Evan McPherson, Florida
Ryan Meskell, Hawaii
Riley Patterson, Memphis
Cooper Rothe, Wyoming
Brandon Ruiz, Arizona State
Nick Sciba, Wake Forest
Seth Small, Texas A&M
Evan Staley, West Virginia
Tyler Sumpter, Troy
Andre Szmyt, Syracuse
Ryan Tice, Central Michigan
Jet Toner, Stanford
Jake Verity, East Carolina
Coby Weiss, USF
Louie Zervos, Ohio