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From Australia To Chestnut Hill, New Commit Sam Candotti s Journey To American Football
A look at a unique journey that will lead an Australian to another continent to punt for the Boston College Eagles.
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May 3, 2021
Boston College landed their punter of the future on Sunday evening as 22 Australian special teamer Sam Candotti pledged to the Eagles. But how did the young kicker get into American football.
BC Bulletin spoke with the newest Boston College commit shortly after his decision.
Like many of his fellow Australians, Candotti started his athletic career in another sport, Aussie Rules Football. But American football caught his attention after he attended a Prokick Australia camp, run by former 1980 s NFL kicker Johnny Smith and former punter Nathan Chapman. The camp was created to teach young Australian kickers the ins and outs of American football. I went down for an assessment just to see what it was like, and they invited me into the program full time after
Pressley Harvin III (Alcolu, S.C./Alcolu) was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers with the 27
th pick in the seventh round (No. 254 overall) of the 2021 National Football League on Saturday in Cleveland.
Harvin’s selection gives Georgia Tech two NFL Draft picks in the same year for the first time since 2016. Wide receiver
Harvin won the 2020 Ray Guy Award as college football’s top punter after leading the nation and setting Georgia Tech and Atlantic Coast Conference records with a 48.0-yard punting average. In addition to winning the Ray Guy Award, Harvin earned unanimous All-America recognition in 2020, joining
Calvin Johnson and
David Curry and punter
Pressley Harvin III could all find themselves on NFL rosters by the end of the weekend.
According to many draft pundits, Harvin could be the first Yellow Jacket and the first punter overall to hear his name called during this weekend’s draft. Harvin won the 2020 Ray Guy Award as college football’s top punter after setting Georgia Tech and Atlantic Coast Conference records with a 48.0-yard punting average.
At 6-2 and 226 pounds, Camp wowed NFL scouts on Georgia Tech’s Pro Day in March by running a 4.43-second 40-yard dash, recording a 39.5-inch vertical jump and bench-pressing 225 pounds a whopping 30 times (which is three more than any wide receiver has ever done at the NFL Combine).
Former Fremantle Docker Max Duffy isn t the first ProKick Australia punter to knock on the door to the NFL, but a day out from the opening night of the NFL Draft, he might be the first with a Masters in Sports Psychology on the books. One of the big things about coming over [to Kentucky] is that you get to continue your education, the former Kentucky standout told ESPN. I came out here having played three AFL games but really nothing else behind me. I ve been able to get a psychology degree and I m about to finish my Masters in Sports Psychology. That s been awesome to come over here and not only play sport but finish off my degree too.