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Eli Stein Season 2026

PositionLS
Weight225 lbs
Height6-3
ClassRedshirt Senior
HometownCambridge, Wis.
Previous SchoolArkansas/Wisconsin

2025 PFF ALL-BIG 12 TEAM
2025 PHIL STEELE ALL-BIG 12 SECOND TEAM
2024 PATRICK MANNELLY AWARD WATCH LIST
2023 PATRICK MANNELLY AWARD WATCH LIST
2022 SEC ALL-FRESHMAN TEAM
2022 ADIDAS ALL-AMERICAN (HS)

2025
Team's long snapper all season, recording four tackles on punt coverage...Earned All-Big 12 honors from PFF, one of four Bearcats on the list...Cincinnati was 21st nationally in net punting (41.71) while Stephen Rusnak was 13-for-17 on field goals, and perfect on PATS.

2024
Redshirted; spent spring semester at Wisconsin before transferring to Cincinnati.

2023
Started all 12 games for Arkansas and served as the team’s primary long snapper for the second straight season… made his first career tackle vs. BYU (Sept 16) …Recorded 118 snaps according to Pro Football Focus, making every snap of the special teams during the season.

2022
Started the first 11 games of the season for Arkansas as the team's long snapper before a finger injury that required surgery forced him to miss the final two games of the season…Logged 116 special teams snaps according to Pro Football Focus with 59 of the punt unit and 54 on the field goal unit.

HIGH SCHOOL 
Consensus five-star prospect by Kohl’s Kicking…No. 3 long snapper nationally per Rubio Long Snapping… Played tight end and linebacker in addition to snapping at Cambridge High School…2-year team captain…Also played basketball and competed in track and field…Chose Arkansas over Baylor, Illinois, Stanford, Wisconsin and others.

PERSONAL
Son of Jeff and Heide Stein…Father, Jeff, was a long snapper at Wisconsin from 1984-87…Has one brother, Ezra, and two sisters, Emily and Elyssa…Born April 11, 2004...Eagle Scout.

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Redshirt Junior
2025

LS
6-3 / 225 lbs