Ryan Allen

Ryan Allen is in his second season serving in a special teams player development and specialists coach role at Clemson in 2025.

In his first season at Clemson in 2024, placekicker Nolan Hauser became the first player in Clemson history to record 100 points in a true freshman season. Hauser was selected as an FWAA Freshman All-American and collected National Freshman Special Teams Player of the Year honors from the organization.

Allen is an eight-year NFL veteran who appeared in 107 career regular season games with the New England Patriots (2013-18), Atlanta Falcons (2019), Indianapolis Colts (2020) and Tennessee Titans (2020). Allen helped the Patriots to three Super Bowl titles in Super Bowls XLIX, LI and LIII, garnering selections to the Patriots’ All-Dynasty Team and All-Decade Team for the 2010s as selected by the Patriots Hall of Fame committee.

A native of Salem, Ore., Allen began his college playing career as a walk-on at Oregon State. He transferred to Louisiana Tech in 2010 and finished his career as one of the sport’s most decorated punters. He won the Ray Guy Award in both 2011 and 2012, becoming the award’s first back-to-back winner, and he followed a first-team All-America selection in 2011 by earning unanimous All-America honors in his final season in 2012.

Allen earned a degree in sociology from Louisiana Tech in 2012.