| No. 86 – Tampa Bay Buccaneers | |||||
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| Position | Long snapper | ||||
| Roster status | Active | ||||
| Personal information | |||||
| Born | (1999-02-23)February 23, 1999 (age 26) Avon, Connecticut, U.S. | ||||
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||
| Weight | 252 lb (114 kg) | ||||
| Career information | |||||
| High school | Avon Old Farms (Avon, Connecticut) | ||||
| College | UMass (2018–2021) Duke (2022) | ||||
| NFL draft | 2023: undrafted | ||||
| Career history | |||||
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| Career NFL statistics as of Week 6, 2025 | |||||
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Evan Deckers (born February 23, 1999) is an American professionalfootballlong snapper for theTampa Bay Buccaneers of theNational Football League (NFL). He playedcollege football for theUMass Minutemen andDuke Blue Devils.
Deckers was born on February 23, 1999, inAvon, Connecticut.[1] He attended high school atAvon Old Farms, where he won 10varsity letters, competing ingolf,football,basketball,hockey andsquash.[2] With the football team, he played as acenter,long snapper andquarterback, being ranked a 4.5-star long snapper by Kohl's Kicking.[2] He was ranked a two-star recruit at long snapper by bothRivals.com and247Sports and signed to playcollege football for theUMass Minutemen in February 2018.[3][4][5]
Deckers was one of the two main long snappers for UMass as a truefreshman in 2018, appearing in all 12 games.[2] He played in all 12 games in 2019, recording twotackles, and in all four games during the 2020 season.[2] He was named to thePatrick Mannelly Award watchlist and toPhil Steele's Preseason All-Independent first-team entering the 2021 season, in which he appeared in all 12 games while tallying two tackles.[2][6][7] He was named to Phil Steele's All-Independent second team at the end of the season and graduated from UMass in December 2021 with a degree in kinesiology.[8]
Deckers opted to transfer to theDuke Blue Devils for a final season of college football in 2022, ending his stint at UMass having appeared in 40 games.[8][9] He played in all 13 games for Duke in 2022, helping the team convert 17 of 24field goal attempts and all 52extra point attempts.[10] He received amaster's degree in management studies from Duke'sFuqua School of Business.[11] In his collegiate career, he played 53 games, helping his teams convert 44 of 60 field goals and 154 of 158 extra points, while being named Academic All-Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and to theNational Football Foundation (NFF) Hampshire Honors Society in his last season.[10]
| Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | 40-yard dash | 10-yard split | 20-yard split | 20-yard shuttle | Three-cone drill | Vertical jump | Broad jump | Bench press | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 ft2+7⁄8 in (1.90 m) | 245 lb (111 kg) | 31+1⁄4 in (0.79 m) | 9+7⁄8 in (0.25 m) | 5.15 s | 1.88 s | 2.89 s | 4.65 s | 7.87 s | 28.0 in (0.71 m) | 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) | 10 reps | |
| All values fromPro Day[12] | ||||||||||||
After going unselected in the2023 NFL draft, Deckers signed with theTampa Bay Buccaneers as anundrafted free agent.[13] He competed withZach Triner for the team's long snapping job and was waived on August 29, 2023.[14] After Triner was injured, Deckers signed with the Buccaneerspractice squad on December 13, 2023.[15][16] He was released six days later, on December 19, without having appeared in a game.[1][17] After the season, he signed a reserve/future contract with the Buccaneers on January 30, 2024.[18] He beat out Triner for the team's long snapper job in 2024, but suffered a hamstring injury in Week 3 and was placed on injured reserve.[19][20] He was activated on November 9.
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