Andrew Mevis has turned kicking into a weapon that can tilt a game in a hurry, and on Saturday he showed exactly why Green Bay’s offense has been so hard to catch.
In a 65-21 win over the Iowa Barnstormers in Des Moines, Mevis delivered three deuces, eight PATs and an 18-yard field goal. In the Indoor Football League, a deuce is worth two points when a kickoff goes through the uprights, and that means Mevis can turn a touchdown into a nine-point swing.
“It’s a lot of fun,” Mevis said. “Every touchdown we do that, we get nine [points total], so it’s pretty sweet.”
The result moved the Green Bay Blizzard to 13-2 and locked up the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference for the playoffs. It also kept Mevis at the top of the league’s scoring race. Through 15 games, he leads the IFL with 153 total points, 92 successful PATs and 11 field goals.
That kind of production didn’t come out of nowhere. Mevis has been building this résumé for years, starting at Warsaw Community High School in Indiana, where he first broke through as a 2016 Kohl’s Kicking All-American. He set a school record with a 40.2-yard punting average, won the Under Armour Skills Kicking Challenge and earned a place in the 2017 Under Armour All-American Game, where he made a 46-yard field goal.
Looking back on those high school days, Mevis said the lessons stuck with him. “You’re always just trying to learn and get better each and every day”.
At Fordham, he immediately became the full-time specialist as a freshman in 2017, and his numbers kept climbing from there. In 2018, he set single-season school records for punts with 81 and punting yards with 3,344.
That same season, he hit a 54-yard field goal against Holy Cross, coming up one yard short of the Patriot League record. By 2019, he was a First Team All-Patriot League selection, led the conference in scoring and ranked 19th nationally in field goals per game.
His next stop, Iowa State, produced one of the best specialist seasons in Cyclone history. In 2021, Mevis earned Third Team All-American honors and was a Lou Groza Award semifinalist after tying the school record for field goals in a season with 20. Midway through that year, he became the first Cyclone since Tony Yelk in 2001 to handle all four kicking duties: field goals, PATs, punting and kickoffs.
That season also included a 54-yard field goal at UNLV, an 87.0% field goal percentage and a 29-yard run on a fake punt against Oklahoma. When asked about his favorite memory as a Cyclone, Mevis pointed to a win over Texas, the third straight for Iowa State over the Longhorns.
“Shoot, I think beating Texas-that was so much fun my senior year,” Mevis said. “That night game in Ames was just awesome.”
His professional path has taken him through the Jacksonville Jaguars, St. Louis Battlehawks and Winnipeg Blue Bombers before landing him in Green Bay, where he is now in his third season with the Blizzard. The former 2025 All-IFL First Team selection is playing the best football of his career, and Green Bay is “finishing strong” as the playoffs draw near.
With the No. 1 seed already secured and the league’s scoring title still in play, Mevis says he’s not looking too far ahead. “Just trying to keep, keep going and make an impact and try to keep playing professionally and move up.”
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