#81  Nolan Hauser

Clemson legacy who signed with Clemson in 2024 as the national high school record-holder for career field goals … made one of the biggest kicks in Clemson history when he hit an ACC Championship Game-record 56-yard game-winning field goal as time expired to give the Tigers the 2024 ACC crown … scored Clemson-true-freshman-record 113 points that season … enters 2026 with a 35-of-45 mark on field goals (77.8 percent) and a 97-of-98 ledger on PATs (99.0 percent) in 27 career games (all starts).

2025: Converted 17-of-21 field goals (81.0 percent) and 38-of-38 PATs (100 percent) as Clemson’s starting kicker in all 13 games … scored Clemson’s first points of the season on a 42-yard field goal vs. No. 9 LSU … also pinned LSU inside its own 20 with 28-yard punt on a quick kick … went 2-for-2 on field goals and 3-for-3 on PATs vs. Troy … went 3-for-3 on PATs both at Georgia Tech and vs. Syracuse … went 1-for-1 on field goals and 5-for-5 on PATs at North Carolina and pinned the Tar Heels at their own nine on a surprise pooch punt … went 5-for-5 on PATs and 2-for-2 on field goals of 46 and 50 yards at Boston College, earning ACC Specialist of the Week honors … converted a 28-yard field goal attempt and went 3-for-3 on PATs vs. SMU … hit a 22-yard field goal and six PATs vs. Duke … went 1-for-1 on PATs and 3-for-3 on field goals vs. Florida State … went 2-for-2 on PATs and 2-for-2 on field goals at No. 19 Louisville, extending his career-long streak of consecutive made field goals to 10, Clemson’s first double-digit streak of made field goals since B.T. Potter’s in 2021 … went 1-for-2 on field goals vs. Furman, ending a streak of 11 consecutive made field goals that tied Aaron Hunt (11 in 2003) for the seventh-longest streak in Clemson history … went 2-for-2 on field goal attempts and 2-for-2 on PATs at South Carolina … converted a 48-yard field goal amid his 1-for-2 day on field goals and went 1-for-1 on PATs vs. Penn State.

2024: Converted 18-of-24 field goal attempts (75.0 percent) and 59-of-60 PATs (98.3 percent) in starting all 14 games as Clemson’s placekicker in his true freshman campaign … became the first player in Clemson history to record 100 points in a true freshman season … selected as a Freshman All-American by the FWAA and as a True Freshman All-American by Pro Football Focus … also collected National Freshman Special Teams Player of the Year honors from the FWAA … his 113-point season ranked tied for sixth in Clemson history in kicking points scored in a single season and tied for ninth in school history in points scored by any means in a single season … his 18 field goals were one shy of Chris Gardocki’s school record for a Clemson true freshman (19 in 1988) … ACC Honor Roll selection … made his collegiate debut vs. No. 1 Georgia, converting a 26-yarder in his first career field goal attempt … went 9-for-9 on PATs and banked in a 36-yard attempt vs. Appalachian State … converted a 20-yard field goal attempt and went 8-for-8 on PATs vs. NC State … went 2-for-2 on field goals and 4-for-5 on PATs vs. Stanford as a blocked PAT snapped a streak of 25 consecutive made kicks to open his collegiate career (five field goals & 20 PATs) … earned ACC Specialist of the Week and a Lou Groza Award Star of the Week selection after he converted 5-of-7 field goal attempts with two blocks at Florida State, breaking the school record for field goal attempts in a game and recording Clemson’s first five-field-goal performance since Chandler Catanzaro went 5-for-5 on field goal attempts against Boston College in 2011 … converted 7-of-7 PATs at Wake Forest … went 2-for-2 on field goals and 6-for-6 on PATs vs. Virginia … went 3-for-3 on PATs and had two field goal attempts blocked vs. Louisville … broke Sammy Watkins’ Clemson record for points in a true freshman season during his six-point effort at Virginia Tech … recorded a then-career-long 51-yard field goal at Pitt, the first 50-yard field goal of his collegiate career … hit a 32-yard field goal and went 5-for-5 on PATs vs. The Citadel … went 2-for-2 on PATs vs. No. 16 South Carolina … went 2-for-3 on field goals vs. No. 8 SMU including a career-long and ACC Championship Game-record 56-yard game-winning field goal as time expired … became the first Clemson player to kick a game-winning walk-off field goal since Chandler Catanzaro hit a 37-yard field goal to beat LSU to end the 2012 Chick-Fil-A Bowl … the 56-yard field goal was the longest game-winning field goal as time expired in Clemson history as well as the longest field goal in postseason play in Clemson history … became the first FBS player ever to win a conference championship game by kicking a field goal of 50 or more yards as time expired … went 3-for-3 on PATs and hit a 32-yard field goal at No. 3 Texas.

.@nolanhauser CALLED GAME! TIGERS WIN! https://t.co/afPgKzB8SY pic.twitter.com/9a5zypOar0

— Clemson Football (@ClemsonFB) December 8, 2024

Before Clemson: Completed his prep career as the national record-holder for career field goals made (66), breaking the record held by Cole Hedlund of Argyle, Texas since 2013 (56) … finished third in national high school history in kicking points (403) … rated by 247Sports, On3 and Rivals as the nation’s No. 1 kicker … ranked No. 2 by PrepStar at his position … went 66-of-81 (81.5 percent) on field goal attempts with a career long of 53 in 51 career games… made 205-of-211 career PATs including 104 of his last 105 … produced 198 touchbacks on 270 career kickoffs including 59 touchbacks on 69 kickoffs in 2023 … three-time All-American who was also a four-time first-team all-state honoree by the Charlotte Observer … as a freshman in 2020, made 13-of-15 field goals and went 34-for-34 on PATs for 73 total points … as a sophomore, made 21-of-26 field goals and went 67-for-72 on PATs for a career-high 130 points … as a junior, made 20-of-22 field goals and 57-of-57 PATs for 117 points … converted 12-of-15 field goal attempts and went 47-for-48 on PATs for 83 points in his final season at Hough, earning second-team All-American status from MaxPreps … also punted his last two years, averaging 39.2 yards per punt as a senior … as a senior, helped Hough to an 11-2 record, including a 7-0 mark in the conference, and was named the team’s offensive MVP en route to the squad’s No. 7 final ranking in the state … helped Huskies go 14-1 with a 6-0 conference mark and No. 2 ranking in North Carolina in 2021 … team was 36-6 with an 18-1 conference mark over his last three years of high school … 2023 team captain … played for DeShawn Baker at Hough … played for North Carolina in the Shrine Bowl on Dec. 16, 2023.

Personal: Son of two Clemson graduates and former Clemson student-athletes … his mother, Sheri Hauser (née Bueter), was an All-American soccer player at Clemson from 1994-97 and helped the first four teams in Clemson history finish in the top 13 in the nation … Bueter still holds the Clemson record for career assists with 40 and was inducted into the Clemson Athletic Hall of Fame in 2009 … his father, Scott Hauser, played baseball at Clemson from 1995-97 and was 6-2 as a pitcher on Clemson’s College World Series team of 1996 … his sister, Ella Hauser, was a letter-winner on Clemson’s 2023 women’s soccer team that was the first in school history to be among the final four teams in the Women’s College Cup … born June 21, 2005 … committed to Clemson as the first commit in his class on Nov. 28, 2022 … enrolled at Clemson in January 2024 … sports communication major … completed microinternships with Segars Realty in Montana in spring 2024 and with Elliott Realty in Myrtle Beach in spring 2025 … in 2025, purchased new cleats for the entire senior class of football players at his high school alma mater, Hough High School … last name pronounced “HOO-zer.”