Dustin Hopkins, a placekicker for the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League, was born on October 1, 1990. (NFL). In the sixth round of the 2013 NFL Draft, the Buffalo Bills selected him out of Florida State to play college football. Hopkins played football for the Washington Redskins from 2015 until his release in 2021.
Where did Dustin Hopkins go to high school?
Hopkins was recruited by Florida State after former Seminoles special teams coordinator Jody Allen watched a high school game film of Hopkins’ kickoffs. Notre Dame was also interested. As a freshman in 2009, Hopkins hit 19 of 27 field goals or roughly 70% of the time.
On November 13, 2010, against Clemson, Florida State rallied in the fourth quarter after trailing the entire game. With less than a minute left in regulation and the score tied at 13, Florida State marched down into Clemson territory, where Hopkins made a 55-yard field goal with 3 seconds left to win the game.
Hopkins broke the previous FSU record when he kicked his 109th point after touchdown (PAT) in a row against Wake Forest in 2011. He didn’t miss a PAT until September 8, 2012, giving him 145 consecutive successful attempts, the sixth-longest streak in NCAA history. Hopkins set the NCAA Division I FBS record for career points scored by a kicker with a 26-yard field goal in the second quarter against the Maryland Terrapins on November 18, 2012. Hopkins would finish the day with six more points, bringing his total to 448. His career field goal record was later broken in 2016 by Arizona State University kicker Zane Gonzalez.
