Brandon McManus

Brandon McManus

refer to caption McManus with the Denver Broncos
No. 8 Denver Broncos
Position:	Placekicker
Personal information
Date of birth:	(1991-07-25) July 25, 1991
Place of birth:	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Height:
Weight:
Career information
High school:	Towamencin Twp (PA) North Penn
College:	Temple
Undrafted:	2013
Career history
Indianapolis Colts (2013)* New York Giants (2014)* Denver Broncos (2014–present)
* Offseason and/or practice squad member only
Roster status:	Active
Career highlights and awards
NFL Super Bowl Champion (50) AFC Special Teams Player of the Month (October, 2015) AFC champion (2015) College Temple Owls record for most career points (338)
Career NFL statistics as of 2015
FG made: 39 FG attempted: 48 FG %: 81.2% Longest FG: 57 Touchbacks: 119 Player stats at NFL.com

Brandon Tyler McManus (born July 25, 1991) is an American football placekicker for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Temple and was signed by the Indianapolis Colts as an undrafted free agent in 2013.

McManus has also been a member of the Indianapolis Colts and New York Giants.

He kicked three field goals for the Broncos in Super Bowl 50.

College career

McManus holds Temple career records for points scored (338), field goals made (60) and attempted (83) and punting average (45.4). As a senior in 2012, he earned All-Big East first-team honors after leading the team in scoring (74) on 14-of-17 field goals and 32-of-33 extra points. He also averaged 45.1 yards per punt, pinned 17 punts inside the 20-yard line and had a long kick of 68 yards. McManus handled kickoff duties as well and recorded 40 touchbacks on 56 total kickoffs.

Professional career

After going undrafted in the 2013 NFL Draft, McManus signed with the Indianapolis Colts before being waived prior to the start of the season. In 2014, he played four preseason games for the New York Giants before being traded to the Denver Broncos to cover for the loss of the Broncos' starting kicker Matt Prater, who began the 2014 NFL season serving a four-game suspension. He became their starting kicker following the release of Prater on October 3, 2014. McManus was waived by the Broncos on November 11, 2014 after the team decided to sign free agent Connor Barth as his replacement. He was quickly re-signed by the Broncos after clearing waivers and spent the rest of the season as the team's kickoff specialist.

Going into the 2015 season, the Broncos brought both Barth and McManus to training camp. McManus won the job, proving more consistent than he had been in 2014, and the Broncos cut Barth. On September 13, 2015, he became the third kicker in NFL history to make multiple field goals of 56 or more yards in the same game, joining Sebastian Janikowski and Greg Zuerlein, who achieved that feat in 2012. On October 18, McManus made the game winning overtime field goal to propel the Broncos to a 26-23 win over the Cleveland Browns. In the Divisional round of the playoffs, McManus tied an NFL-postseason record by making five field goals in a 23-16 win over the Steelers. In Super Bowl 50, he made three field goals and an extra point in the 24-10 win against the Carolina Panthers, earning his first ever Super Bowl ring.