Honors and Awards
- 2025: Selected in the sixth round (186 overall) of the NFL Draft by the Baltimore Ravens (4/26)
- 2025: NFF Hampshire Honor Society (4/16)
- 2024: All-Big 12 Honorable Mention (12/5)
- 2024: Lou Groza Award Semifinalist (11/19)
- 2024: Big 12 Fall Academic Honor Roll
- 2024: Lou Groza Award Star of the Week (10/8)
- 2024: Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week (10/7)
- 2024: Lou Groza Award Star of the Week (10/1)
- 2023: Preseason Lou Groza Award Watch List (8/2)
- 2023: All-Pac-12 Second Team Specialist (12/5)
- 2023: Pac-12 Special Teams Player of the Week (11/13)
- 2023: Lou Groza Award Semifinalist (11/9)
- 2023: Lou Groza Award Preseason Watch List (8/2)
- 2023: Preseason All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention
- 2022: Lou Groza Award Preseason Watch List
- 2022: All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention
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2024: Selected in the sixth round (186 overall) of the 2025 NFL Draft by the Baltimore Ravens (4/26/25)... Appeared in all 12 games during the 2024 season... Made 18 of 23 field goal attempts (78.26%)... Made program-record 62-yard field goal against Houston (11/15)... Finished career with highest field goal percentage in program history (67-of-80) for 83.75%, after entering the season with the highest field goal percentage (86.0)... Made a single-game program record five field goals against Texas Tech (10/5)... Also, attempted the most field goals in a single game in program history (6) against Texas Tech, registering a single-game career-high in points scored (16)... Tied for third in program history in career extra-points made percentage (126-128, 98.4%)... Made seven extra-points against New Mexico (8/31), the second-most in a single game in career.
2023: Appeared in all 13 games during the 2023 season... Made 19-of-24 field goal attempts for 79.2%... Booted a career-long 52-yard field goal at Colorado in a game where he also made a game-winning 24-yard field goal as time expired... Made 53-of-53 extra-point attempts to move to 103-for-103 on extra-point attempts in his collegiate career... Has made 49-of-57 (86.0%) of his field goal attempts in college... Kicked two field goals from beyond 50 yards (51 vs. Oregon State, 10/28), and the aforementioned 52-yard FG vs. Colorado (11/11), marking the two longest field goals made of his collegiate career... Third in the Pac-12 in made field goals (19)... Seventh in the Pac-12 in field goal percentage (79.2%)... Finished junior season 12th all-time in career-field goal percentage (86.0%, 49-57).
2022: Appeared in all 12 games as the teams primary kicker, handling kickoff duties as well… Made 18 of 21 attempts with a career-long of 48 yards for a percentage of 85.71… Made 38 of 38 extra points… Booted his long of 48 yards at Washington on 10/15… Made nine straight field goals to end the season, going 3-for-3 against USC on 10/29, 1-for-1 at Utah on 11/5, 2-for-2 at UCLA on 11/12, 2-for-2 vs. Washington State on 11/19, and 1-for-1 in the Territorial Cup victory over Arizona State on 11/25… Booted 45 touch backs on kickoff marking a career high… 30-for-33 on field goals in career.
2021: Played in eight games … Finished the season as Arizona’s PAT and short kick specialist … Made all 12 of his attempts with a long of 42 … Became the first player in Arizona history to make their first 10 career kicks … Made all 12 of his point after attempts … Led the team in scoring with 48 points.
2020: Played in all five games as the Wildcats primary punter…Totaled 24 punts on the year and averaged 43.0 yards per punt with a long of 64…Downed eight punts inside the opponents 20 yard line…Boomed eight kicks 50+ yards…Only notched two touchbacks…Long punt of 64 yards came in the Territorial Cup on Dec. 11, one of three punts in the game…Career-high seven punts came on Dec. 5 versus Colorado…Forced three fair catches in both the Nov. 21 game at Washington and the next week, Nov. 28 at UCLA…Best performance of the year came Dec. 5 versus Colorado, booming three punts of 50+ yards and averaging 47.14 yards per punt.
High School: Graduated from Lovejoy High School in Lucas, Texas in May 2020…Lettered three years in football as a kicker/punter, two years in soccer (forward), and one year in track and field (high jump, 100-meter, 200-meter)…Finished high school ranked as the No. 8 kicker in the country by Kohl’s Kicking…Competed in 2019 Texas Showcase and won both the field goal and kickoff portions of the event…Named to 2019 Whataburger Super Team.
Personal: Steven Tyler Loop…Son of Steve and Linda Loop…One brother, Andrew, and one sister, Sarah…Majoring in Pre-Business…Chose Arizona because, “I saw the best opportunity for myself to develop into the best kicker I can be and compete early in my career.”
