Jai Patel

2025 Honorable Mention All-Big Ten (Coaches) School Record - Consecutive Made Field Goals (18 from 2024-25) 2025 Academic All-Big Ten Big Ten Special Teams Player of the Week (Oct. 27, 2025) 2025 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team Nominee 2025 Allstate Wuerffel Trophy Watch List 2024 Academic All-Big Ten School Record - Season Field Goal Accuracy (83.3% in 2023) 2023-24 Rutgers Athletics Sophomore of the Year 2023 Third Team All-Big Ten (Media) 2023 Fourth Team All-Big Ten (Phil Steele) 2023 Honorable Mention All-Big Ten (Coaches) 2023 Academic All-Big Ten Big Ten Special Teams Player of the Week (Sept. 11, 2023) 2025 (Senior): Played in all 12 games ... voted honorable mention All-Big Ten (12/3) by the coaches ... named to the Academic All-Big Ten list (12/10) for the third time ... hit a 44-yard field goal at No. 1 Ohio State (11/22) ... went 5-for-5 on extra points in win over Maryland (11/8) ... made from 26 and 40 yards away at Illinois (11/1) ... named Big Ten Co-Special Teams Player of the Week (10/27) after hitting from 20 yards away to tie the game with 1:06 remaining and from 30 out as time expired to beat Purdue (10/25) ... matched career high with a 51-yard make against No. 8 Oregon (10/18) ... made from 37 and 35 yards away at Washington (10/10) ... good on two field goals and four extra points versus Norfolk State (9/13) ... made six extra points and a 39-yard field goal against Miami (Ohio) (9/6) ... went 2-for-2 on field goals versus Ohio (8/28) to set the school record for consecutive makes ... named to the watch list for the 2025 Allstate Wuerffel Trophy (7/31) and a nominee for the Allstate American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Good Works Team (7/15).