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Punter, Fresno State, 2006–⁠09

Robert Malone

Number: No. 42
Height: 6′2″
Hometown: Riverside, CA
Born: Feb 4, 1988, in Orange, California

Wikipedia readers: about 166 a month over the past year

Robert Malone played punter at Fresno State (2006–⁠09).

Punting

Punting yards, season by season, with his team’s record

744

2,311

1,941

4–⁠89–⁠47–⁠68–⁠5

Season	Team	Punts	Yds	Avg	Long
2006*	Fresno State	20	744	37.2	53
2007*	Fresno State	2	72	36.0	45
2008*	Fresno State	54	2,311	42.8	74
2009	Fresno State	43	1,941	45.1	69
Career		119	5,068	42.6	74

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. * That team-season’s player lines are missing part of the team’s yards in our source, so these numbers may be short.

Defense before 2016

Season	G	Solo	Ast	Tkl	TFL
2006	6	2	4	6	0.5
2007	3	1	5	6	0.5
2008	12	2	0	2	0
2009	13	0	1	1	0
On file		5	10	15	1

Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources: cfbstats.com (Open Data Commons Attribution License), its game lines summed (G: the games he has a line in). A dash: the source has no number for it.

On the roster

Season	Team	No.	Pos	Ht
2006	Fresno State	42	P
2007	Fresno State	42	P
2008	Fresno State	42	P
2009	Fresno State	42	P	6′2″

As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.

Game by game

2009 Fresno State 13 games, 43 punts, 45.1 average

Date	Opponent	Result	Punts	Yds	Long
Sep 5	vs.UC Davis	W 51–⁠0	1	43	43
Sep 12	atWisconsin	L 31–⁠34	4	189	59
Sep 18	vs.Boise State	L 34–⁠51	4	180	53
Sep 26	atCincinnati	L 20–⁠28	2	100	53
Oct 10	atHawai’i	W 42–⁠17	3	130	52
Oct 17	vs.San José State	W 41–⁠21	4	216	69
Oct 24	atNew Mexico State	W 34–⁠3	3	130	51
Oct 31	vs.Utah State	W 31–⁠27	4	199	59
Nov 7	atIdaho	W 31–⁠21	4	192	60
Nov 14	atNevada	L 14–⁠52	2	62	40
Nov 21	vs.Louisiana Tech	W 30–⁠28	6	240	51
Dec 5	atIllinois	W 53–⁠52	4	170	50
Dec 19 ✦	vs.Wyoming	L 28–⁠35	2	90	55

2008 Fresno State 12 games, 54 punts, 42.8 average

Date	Opponent	Result	Punts	Yds	Long
Sep 1	atRutgers	W 24–⁠7	6	239	47
Sep 13	vs.Wisconsin	L 10–⁠13	4	191	51
Sep 20	atToledo	W 55–⁠54	4	194	56
Sep 27	atUCLA	W 36–⁠31	4	164	54
Oct 11	vs.Idaho	W 45–⁠32	3	125	44
Oct 25	atUtah State	W 30–⁠28	2	91	57
Nov 1	atLouisiana Tech	L 35–⁠38	6	262	54
Nov 7	vs.Nevada	L 28–⁠41	4	173	53
Nov 15	vs.New Mexico State	W 24–⁠17	6	216	53
Nov 21	atSan José State	W 24–⁠10	6	281	74
Nov 28	atBoise State	L 10–⁠61	4	158	50
Dec 20 ✦	vs.Colorado State	L 35–⁠40	5	217	51

2007 Fresno State 1 game, 2 punts, 36.0 average

Date	Opponent	Result	Punts	Yds	Long	In 20
Sep 1	vs.Sacramento State	W 24–⁠3	2	72	45	0

2006 Fresno State 4 games, 20 punts, 37.2 average

Date	Opponent	Result	Punts	Yds	Long
Sep 1	vs.Nevada	W 28–⁠19	4	159	52
Sep 9	vs.Oregon	L 24–⁠31	5	181	46
Sep 16	atWashington	L 20–⁠21	4	150	49
Sep 30	vs.Colorado State	L 23–⁠35	7	254	53

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.

Before the draft

Played in the 2010 East–West Shrine Game (West team, lost 10–⁠13).

Drill	Combine 2010
Height	6′1⅝″
Weight	235 lb
Arm length	31½″
Hand size	10″
Bench press	19 reps

Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data). Rosters and honors: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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