Korsak was given a two-star rating and placed as the seventh-best punter recruit in 247Sports' rankings.[7] During his first year at Rutgers, he set the school record for longest punt with a kick of 79 yards.[8] He started all 12 games that year, being named honorable mention all-conference while posting a team-record with a 40.1 net punt average.[2][9] Korsak totaled 78 punts on the year for 3,333 yards, with a gross average[a] of 42.7 yards-per-punt.[10]
In 2019, Korsak thrice was named winner of the weekly Ray Guy Award for best punter nationally, additionally being a semifinalist for the Ray Guy Award given to the best punter overall on the year.[11] He appeared in every game and posted a total of 76 punts for 3,327 yards, having a long of 69 with only two touchbacks and 31 kicks inside the 20, while ranking first in the Big Ten Conference with a net average of 41.5.[1][11][12] After the season, Korsak was named second-team all-conference by both the league's coaches and Associated Press (AP).[11][13]
Korsak appeared in all nine games during the 2020 season (which was shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic), posting 48 punts for 2,062 yards (a gross average of 43.0), including a long of 66 with no touchbacks and 21 inside the 20-yard line.[14] He had a net average of 42.3, placing ninth nationally in that category.[1] He was named co-team captain with Isiah Pacheco starting in 2020, a rare achievement for a player at his position and a role he would serve in for the rest of his Rutgers tenure, and earned third-team All-Big Ten honors from the league's coaches as well as second-team honors from the media and Phil Steele.[9][15]
In 2021, Korsak started all 13 games and set college football's all-time record with a 45.3 net average.[1] He was named second-team All-American, first-team all-conference, a finalist for the Ray Guy Award and Rutgers' most valuable player after posting 72 kicks for 3,299 yards.[1][10][16][17] He was named Big Ten Special Teams Player of the Week twice and Ray Guy Player of the Week twice, with 38 of his punts going inside the 20-yard line.[9] After the season, he opted to return for a final year.[18]
Korsak started all 12 games in 2022, recording 75 punts for 3,297 yards (for a gross average of 44.0), including 32 kicks landing inside the 20.[1][10] He twice earned punter of the week honors, was named first-team All-American by The Sporting News, and despite being named only third-team All-Big Ten, was named the Ray Guy Award winner as the best punter nationally.[9][16][19] He was the first first-team All-American at Rutgers since 2006, and by being Ray Guy Award winner became the only player at the school to ever win a national on-field award.[9] His kicks were returned for -11 yards on the year, and in all but one game no positive returns were recorded against him.[16] Against Penn State, he set the NCAA all-time record for career punting yards, and also finished his career as the all-time leader in punts, with 15,318 yards and 349 punts.[9][20] Korsak ended his stint at Rutgers having not a single punt blocked and a streak of 150 consecutive kicks without a touchback.[16]
Korsak was selected in the eighth round (61st overall) of the 2023 USFL draft by the New Jersey Generals.[23] He was also drafted in the first round (3rd overall) in the 2023 CFL Global Draft by the Saskatchewan Roughriders.[24] After going unselected in the 2023 NFL draft, he was invited to rookie minicamps with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Kansas City Chiefs.[25] He then signed with the Roughriders on 21 May 2023.[26] Korsak won the punter job following training camp, displacing the incumbent, Kaare Vedvik. Korsak played in all 18 regular season games in 2023, where he punted 117 times with a 47.9–yard average and had six singles and two special teams tackles.[27]
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^A gross average is the average distance of how far a player's punt travels, whereas a net average is that number minus the yards they were returned.
