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Jersey Number 88
Ethan Pulliam
- Position:
- P
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 190
- Class:
- Redshirt Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Starkville, Miss.
- High School/Previous School:
- Starkville HS
Career Honors
2025 All-American Second Team, P (Sporting News)
2025 All-SEC Third Team, P (Phil Steele)
2025 Ray Guy Award Watchlist
2025 The Sporting News Midseason All-American
Career Notes
Played in 13 career games … Following the 2025 season, has a career-long punt of 67 yards … 18 punts of 50+ yards … Averaged 46.8 yards per punt.
2025 (Redshirt Sophomore Season)
Played in all 13 games … Set a single-season program record for yards per punt (46.8 yards per punt), passing Andy Russ who had the record since 1996 when he set the top mark with an average of 46.53 … Just the second Mississippi State punter to ever average at least 46 yards per punt in a single-season … Second Team All-American by Sporting News … Third Team All-SEC by Phil Steele … Ray Guy Award Watchlist … Sporting News Midseason All-American … Punted 45 times for a total of 2,104 yards … Averaged 46.8 yards per punt … of his 45 punts, one was a touchback, 16 were fair caught, 11 were pinned inside the 20 yard line and 18 were punts of 50+ yards … at Southern Miss (8/30): Made his Mississippi State football debut against Southern Miss ... vs. NIU (9/20): his 51-yard punt was his first career 50+ yard punt ... vs. Tennessee (9/27): Had a career long 67-yard punt that was downed on the 1-yard line ... vs. Ole Miss (11/28): Has had a punt of over 50 yards in nine straight games … vs. Wake Forest (1/2): Fourth game with at least 5 punts … Totalled 230 punt yards … Recorded his only touchback of the season.
2024 (Redshirt Freshman Season)
Did not play in any games.
High School
Played baseball and football at Starkville High School ... Earned a five-star rating being the No. 1 punter in the state of Mississippi and the No. 9 rated punter in the country his senior year … Also captured the 2022 6A football state championship … Helped guide Starkville High to a runner-up finish in baseball in his sophomore season … Had several individual accolades, earning Crossroads Baseball All-Star Team selection, NEMCABB All-Star Baseball Team selection, Starkville Daily Baseball Player of the Year, MVP of the Crossroads Baseball All-Star Game and MVP of the NEMCABB All-Star Baseball Game … Hit over .350 batting average every year except the COVID year in high school, going as high as .466 his senior year.
Personal
Full name is Ethan Christopher Pulliam … Born in Starkville, Mississippi … Son of Chris and Mashala, and brother to Kylan … His cousins, CoEric Riley and Mark McLaurin, both played football at State … Has three cousins who play or have played football professionally and who have come from the state of Mississippi: AJ Brown (Ole Miss, Philadelphia Eagles), Tom Johnson III (Southern Mississippi, Minnesota Vikings), Alonzo Lawrence (Southern Mississippi, Edmonton Eskimos) … Majoring in Business Administration.
Career-Highs Entering 2026
Punts: 7, at Texas A&M (10/4/2025)
Punt Yards: 319 yards, at Texas A&M (10/4/2025)
Longest Punt: 67 yards, vs. Tennessee (9/27/2025)
Punts Inside 20: 3, vs. Tennessee (9/27/2025)
50+ yard Punts: 4, at Texas A&M (10/4/2025)
2025 All-American Second Team, P (Sporting News)
2025 All-SEC Third Team, P (Phil Steele)
2025 Ray Guy Award Watchlist
2025 The Sporting News Midseason All-American
Career Notes
Played in 13 career games … Following the 2025 season, has a career-long punt of 67 yards … 18 punts of 50+ yards … Averaged 46.8 yards per punt.
2025 (Redshirt Sophomore Season)
Played in all 13 games … Set a single-season program record for yards per punt (46.8 yards per punt), passing Andy Russ who had the record since 1996 when he set the top mark with an average of 46.53 … Just the second Mississippi State punter to ever average at least 46 yards per punt in a single-season … Second Team All-American by Sporting News … Third Team All-SEC by Phil Steele … Ray Guy Award Watchlist … Sporting News Midseason All-American … Punted 45 times for a total of 2,104 yards … Averaged 46.8 yards per punt … of his 45 punts, one was a touchback, 16 were fair caught, 11 were pinned inside the 20 yard line and 18 were punts of 50+ yards … at Southern Miss (8/30): Made his Mississippi State football debut against Southern Miss ... vs. NIU (9/20): his 51-yard punt was his first career 50+ yard punt ... vs. Tennessee (9/27): Had a career long 67-yard punt that was downed on the 1-yard line ... vs. Ole Miss (11/28): Has had a punt of over 50 yards in nine straight games … vs. Wake Forest (1/2): Fourth game with at least 5 punts … Totalled 230 punt yards … Recorded his only touchback of the season.
2024 (Redshirt Freshman Season)
Did not play in any games.
High School
Played baseball and football at Starkville High School ... Earned a five-star rating being the No. 1 punter in the state of Mississippi and the No. 9 rated punter in the country his senior year … Also captured the 2022 6A football state championship … Helped guide Starkville High to a runner-up finish in baseball in his sophomore season … Had several individual accolades, earning Crossroads Baseball All-Star Team selection, NEMCABB All-Star Baseball Team selection, Starkville Daily Baseball Player of the Year, MVP of the Crossroads Baseball All-Star Game and MVP of the NEMCABB All-Star Baseball Game … Hit over .350 batting average every year except the COVID year in high school, going as high as .466 his senior year.
Personal
Full name is Ethan Christopher Pulliam … Born in Starkville, Mississippi … Son of Chris and Mashala, and brother to Kylan … His cousins, CoEric Riley and Mark McLaurin, both played football at State … Has three cousins who play or have played football professionally and who have come from the state of Mississippi: AJ Brown (Ole Miss, Philadelphia Eagles), Tom Johnson III (Southern Mississippi, Minnesota Vikings), Alonzo Lawrence (Southern Mississippi, Edmonton Eskimos) … Majoring in Business Administration.
Career-Highs Entering 2026
Punts: 7, at Texas A&M (10/4/2025)
Punt Yards: 319 yards, at Texas A&M (10/4/2025)
Longest Punt: 67 yards, vs. Tennessee (9/27/2025)
Punts Inside 20: 3, vs. Tennessee (9/27/2025)
50+ yard Punts: 4, at Texas A&M (10/4/2025)
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