Stephen Gostkowski was a player for University of Memphis and he was playing for baseball and college football. He was named to be the accurate kicker in the entire history of Patriots. He is known to be a prolific and a consistent scorer. He is the second player in the history of NFL who was able to score 500 points in the entire first four seasons of the league and he was able to score 1,000 points in the first eight season of the league even if he missed half of 2010 season because of a leg injury.

He holds a record of having highest average points for each game that was scored over the entire career. He is a first player of AFL-NFL merger who was to lead a league into scoring in two different consecutive seasons. In the year 2014, he was all time leading scorer of Patriots and he surpassed Adam Vinatieri. He was all time leader in a field of goals and he holds the record of NFL to have extra points for consecutive seasons.

Stephen Gostkowski finished in the Madison Central High school in Mississippi State. He won the varsity letters four times for soccer and football and he got three in the baseball and he was All-State honoree for the three sports. He holds the record of the school of longest field goal and he made 55 yard kick. Some of his teammates in the Madison Central, they include Parys Haralson who plays as a linebacker for Saints and Chris Spencer who plays for Titans. Jerious Norwood who played as running back of Atlanta Falcon was his opponent.

From his biography, he was called Beav while growing up since he lost two teeth when he was playing hockey and he had fake teeth installed instead, to be replacement. When he was in Memphis, he was called Gotti by the head coach of Tigers called Tommy West since he failed to pronounce well his name.

Stephen Gostkowski is married to Hallie. He met his wife when they were doing the physiology and anatomy together. Hallie is now working as a nurse in Boston area and they dated when they were still in college and the two got married in the year 2008. Stephen Gostkowski signed to a contract of 4 years worth 17,200,000 and it included

6,000,000 of signing bonus and 10,100,000 guaranteed with a salary of 4,300,000 per year. His net worth is estimated to be 5 million dollars. In 2006, he suffered a serious injury on his leg.