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The Answer to the Panthers kicking woes resides in North Carolina

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51 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

Why on earth would we want a wake forest player on an NFL roster?

go Heels! 

There are more current Wake players than UNC in the NFL top 100. There’s also more players on that list from football factories like Southern Methodist, Florida Atlantic, Minnesota State, Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Arkansas State, Samford than UNC. But great win against Duke last week!!

 

 

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39 minutes ago, X-Clown said:

There are more current Wake players than UNC in the NFL top 100. There’s also more players on that list from football factories like Southern Methodist, Florida Atlantic, Minnesota State, Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Arkansas State, Samford than UNC. But great win against Duke last week!!

 

 

NFL top 100 - wtf is this? One of those stupid off season programs nobody watches? I can’t think of a wake SNORE-est player in the NFL. 

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1 hour ago, Bartin said:

He doesn’t have range over 50 and can’t get kickoffs to the end zone. He’s probably not an NFL kicker unless he can increase his range pretty significantly unfortunately. At minimum you would need a punter who can double as kickoff specialist and you’d have to be ok with never kicking over 50 yard FGs

He has the third highest number of touchbacks in the ACC this year.  He is not the best at it, but he certainly can get them into the end zone and does it more often than not.  

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18 minutes ago, Davidson Deac II said:

He has the third highest number of touchbacks in the ACC this year.  He is not the best at it, but he certainly can get them into the end zone and does it more often than not.  

Ivan Mora handles kickoffs for Wake

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23 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

NFL top 100 - wtf is this? One of those stupid off season programs nobody watches? I can’t think of a wake SNORE-est player in the NFL. 

Voted on by the players, so it sounds like they might have a bit of insight. 
 

The most notable current player in the NFL that went to UNC is the trivia answer to “What QB will forever be known as the guy the Bears massively reached on ahead of Future Hall of Famer Patrick Mahomes”?

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