Jai Patel holds the PK · Starter spot in Rutgers Scarlet Knights’s kicker room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

Jai Patel is a placekicker for Rutgers who hails from Monmouth Junction, New Jersey, and attended South Brunswick High School, where he established a program record with 22 career field goals. As a redshirt senior in 2025, Patel appeared in all 12 games and converted 13 of 18 field goal attempts (72.2 percent) with a long of 51 yards, adding 37 of 39 extra points for 76 points scored. He earned honorable mention All-Big Ten honors from coaches and was named a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar. Patel has made consecutive field goals spanning from 2024 into 2025, setting a school record, and previously posted an 83.3 percent accuracy rate in 2023, the most accurate season in program history.