Player file
Tory Taylor
P Punter · official depth P1 · Iowa · #19 · PRO
6' 4" · 225 lbs · ESPN roster listing (measurement date not published)
Sources disagree · age: ESPN roster says 1997-10-07, nflverse players.csv says 1997-07-10 (join espn_id); both relayed, neither chosen
CHI · active
Formal report: Practice: not reported · Game designation not reported. Check next report · Plan coverage
Inspect file assembly
lifecycle: veteran — 3 NFL regular-season line(s) 2024–2026 on the seasonal well (nflverse stats_player_reg) · card built 2026-09-20
#28 net yds · 1 g2026where he ranks at Net punt yards among 31 qualified at the position · 2026 · nflverse player statistics 2026 · 2026-09-20
Birthdate evidence · disagreement retained
Iowa publishes a numeric birthdate. It is retained as written rather than used to guess a month/day correction.
Iowa's biography states: Born 10/7/1997. · Iowa official biography
Evidence checked 2026-09-07. The competing birthdates remain stated above.
Inspect season and contract figures
6 punts · 297 punt yds · 63 long · 3 inside 20 · 269 net yds2026 P
nflverse player statistics regular season 2026 (retrieved) · 2026-09-21T05:21:04.072Z2027Signed through
APY $1,191,975 · cap hit $1,261,975
Over The Cap · 2026-09-20Season stats
- 2026 · CHI · P · 2 counting-stat game rows; total appearances unresolved6 punts · 297 punt yds · 63 long · 3 inside 20 · 269 net ydsnflverse player statistics regular season 2026 (retrieved) · 2026-09-21T05:21:04.072Z
Provider-reported season totals may lag game-box statistics and later corrections. Counting-stat game rows do not establish total appearances or starts.
Contract
- Signed through2027Over The Cap · 2026-09-20
- APY$1,191,975Over The Cap · 2026-09-09
- Cap hit$1,261,975Over The Cap · 2026-09-20
- Free agency2028 · UFAOver The Cap · 2026-09-20
Not sourced yet · term / APY / current cap number only; guarantees, bonuses, options and exit consequences are not on a provisioned source (unknown)
NFL by year
- 2026 · CHI · P · 2 counting-stat game rows; total appearances unresolved6 punts · 297 punt yds · 63 long · 3 inside 20 · 269 net yds
- 2025 · CHI · P · 17 counting-stat game rows; total appearances unresolvedstat row carries no counting column at this position
- 2024 · CHI · P · 17 counting-stat game rows; total appearances unresolvedstat row carries no counting column at this position
Stack-up lives on leaders. Not a rank invented on this file.
Official games
- Preseason week 1 · 2026-08-15 · CLE at CHIIn the official book without an individual stat line.Open the book · NFL Game Summary · 2026-08-15
- Preseason week 1 · 2026-08-22 · CHI at CINIn the official book without an individual stat line.Open the book · NFL Game Summary · 2026-08-22
- Preseason week 3 · 2026-08-29 · CHI at TENIn the official book without an individual stat line.Open the book · NFL Game Summary · 2026-08-29
- Week 1 · 2026-09-13 · CHI at CARIn the official book without an individual stat line.Open the book · NFL Game Summary · 2026-09-13
Not sourced yet · snaps are not printed in the NFL Game Summary and no snap-count source is provisioned — participation above is the book's own lists
NFL Game Summary · 2026-08-15as of 2026-09-13College by year
- 2023 · Iowa · punting93 punts · 4479 ydsHC Kirk FerentzCollegeFootballData player season stats · 2026-08-14CollegeFootballData coaches · 2026-08-15
- 2022 · Iowa · punting82 punts · 3725 ydsHC Kirk FerentzCollegeFootballData player season stats · 2026-08-14CollegeFootballData coaches · 2026-08-15
- 2021 · Iowa · punting80 punts · 3688 ydsHC Kirk FerentzCollegeFootballData player season stats · 2026-08-14CollegeFootballData coaches · 2026-08-15
- 2020 · Iowa · punting40 punts · 1765 ydsHC Kirk FerentzCollegeFootballData player season stats · 2026-08-14CollegeFootballData coaches · 2026-08-15
Combine / pro day
- 2024 Combine · P · Iowa · 6-4 · 223 lb
Searched — none · in the combine table for this session with no drill value — did not participate or not recorded; the table does not say which
drafted 2024 · round 4 · Chicago Bears
Not sourced yet · pro day: pro-day results are not on any provisioned source
a blank drill is one the nflverse combine table did not record — it carries no did-not-participate reason, so the reason is not on file
Injuries
- 2026-05-21 → 2026-08-30 · CHI · Commissioner's exempt · ended: activatedPlaced an international player roster exemption on P Tory Taylor.CHI transactions (club-official) · 2026-09-20
derived from filings in official transaction feeds on disk 2026-01-01 → 2026-09-19 (32 clubs: 31 club-published and 1 from the nfl.com league ledger as the approved equivalent (DAL); 1966 rows; no club feed missing) through the designation machine (scripts/lib/designation.mjs — one truth with reserve-status and club-state); pre-window history is not on a provisioned source and stays unknown
Suspensions / discipline
Not sourced yet · no discipline records on file · search bound: recorded search of official transaction feeds on disk 2026-01-01 → 2026-09-19 (32 clubs: 31 club-published and 1 from the nfl.com league ledger as the approved equivalent (DAL); 1966 rows; no club feed missing) for /\bsuspend|reserve\s*\/\s*suspended|commissioner(?:'s)?\s+exempt|exempt\s*\/\s*commissioner/i: 5 filings. The league discipline ledger is not a provisioned source, so absence here is a bounded search, not a true negative. (asOf 2026-09-20)
Transactions
- 2026-08-30 · CHIActivated P Tory Taylor.
- 2026-05-21 · CHIPlaced an international player roster exemption on P Tory Taylor.
window 2026-01-01 → 2026-09-19
filings in official transaction feeds on disk 2026-01-01 → 2026-09-19 (32 clubs: 31 club-published and 1 from the nfl.com league ledger as the approved equivalent (DAL); 1966 rows; no club feed missing); pre-window movement is not on a provisioned source
Awards
0× Pro Bowl · 0× All-Pro · 1 seasons started · career through 2026
nflverse draft_picks (PFR career honors counts) · 2026-09-20career COUNTS as of the fetch (PFR via nflverse), not dated honors; per-season dates are unknown unless a curated dated row is present