Justin Tucker

Justin Paul Tucker (born November 21, 1989) is an American football placekicker for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Texas and was signed by the Ravens as an undrafted free agent in 2012. Tucker is the most accurate kicker in NFL history, and is regarded as one of the greatest placekickers of all time. Tucker currently holds two major NFL records for kickers: career field goal percentage (minimum 100 attempts) with 90.2 percent and longest field goal at . Early years Tucker graduated from Westlake High School in Austin, Texas. At Westlake, he was a teammate of future NFL quarterback Nick Foles, tight end Kyle Adams, and linebacker Bryce Hager. Tucker played wide receiver, safety, and placekicker on the Westlake Chaparrals. Tucker also played soccer from age 3–4 up until his sophomore year. He played in the 2008 U.S. Army All-American Bowl. College career Tucker attended the University of Texas at Austin and played on the Longhorns football team. In 2011, concluding a rivalry that saw Texas A&M University and the University of Texas square off 118 times over 117 years, he kicked the game-winning field goal as time expired. Texas, then ranked No. 25, won 27–25. Even though he finished his college football career with an 83.3% field-goal conversion percentage which was the third-best in the program's history, he was not invited to the East-West Shrine Game, Senior Bowl or the NFL Scouting Combine. Originally a communications major, he switched to recording technology and studied under Nikita Storojev at the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music where he learned to sing operatically in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Latin, and Russian. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Music a semester early in order to train for the NFL Draft.