Kicker A.J. Fox*

[Apathy]

Player: A.J. Fox

Hometown: Youngstown, OH

School: Cardinal Mooney

Position: Punter/Kicker

Height: 5'10"

Weight: 198

40 time: N/A

GPA: 3.37

ACT: 25

Visit Date:

Scholarships:

Interest: Boston College, Bowling Green, Cincinnati, LSU, Miami (OH), Michigan, Nebraska, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Purdue, Youngstown State

 

 

Rivals:

Scout: N/A

[Apathy]

Fox is getting a lot of interest now after showing a strong performance at the Kohl's National Kicking Showcase in Dallas and left as the nations 31st best punter.

 

Fox also attended the Kornblue Kicking camp in Michigan where he drilled 11 of 12 field goals including from 50 yards. His longest punt was 51 yards with a max of 4.03 seconds hangtime.

 

Junior stats he landed 17 punts inside the opponents 20 yard line and adverage 41.7 yards per punt. A total of 46 kickoffs have resulted in touchbacks.

 

Don't surprise in Nebraska offers Fox a scholarship since he plays ball for Cardinal Mooney High School which has ties with the Pelini's and Fox is a former teammate of Braylon Heard and walkon Mark Pelini. A.J. Fox was a freshman when Tim Marlowe was a Senior at Cardinal Mooney.

[teachercd]

I think all of us husker fans have seen how important it is to have good kickers and punters the last few years!

[Apathy]

I think all of us husker fans have seen how important it is to have good kickers and punters the last few years!

I agree. I've watched his film on Rivals and was quite impressed and tried looking on Youtube w/ no luck. He's very quick, accurate and very deadly. During the Division III State Championship game against DeSales during a punt where Fox lost the punt and had to scramble a few yards back to pick up the football at their own 26/27 yard line and scrambled to kick the ball from their 30 yard line and pin the ball on DeSales 4 yard line.

[Husker N KC]

The kid sounds like a great kicker and I hope we offer him, but I really doubt it. Bo has proven that he prefers to have kickers, punters, and long snappers walk-on and then earn a scholarship. We have not offered a kicker a scholarship since Adi Kunalic who was recruited by Callahan and chose to stay on board with Bo.

[Nexus]

They're also looking at another kicker in Connor Loftus out of Servite HS in Anaheim, CA. Apparently he's coming to Lincoln for Kicking Academy this summer. He presently carries an offer from North Carolina St.

 

His teammate TE Troy Niklas carries a Nebraska offer.

 

Since we're on the subject of kickers, future Husker walk-on Jason Dann has a nice Q&A article here. His longest field goal in high school was a 50-yarder when he was a sophomore.

[whateveritis1224]

I'm of the opinion that unless a kicker is in the top 5 in the nation, you don't offer him a scholarship. It's a position, that while important, isn't as important as other positions (namely QB). Sure a kicker can become a great weapon, but who else besides Henery has been able to change the flow of games. Add to that we already have 5+ kickers and punters on the team.

[teachercd]

I'm of the opinion that unless a kicker is in the top 5 in the nation, you don't offer him a scholarship. It's a position, that while important, isn't as important as other positions (namely QB). Sure a kicker can become a great weapon, but who else besides Henery has been able to change the flow of games. Add to that we already have 5+ kickers and punters on the team.

 

I know what you are saying but rating high school kickers is hard as hell. First of all, most of them dont attempt but maybe 10 FGs a year it seems like, then you have scrubs playing special teams so you get bad snaps, bad blocking, bad holds. You have a lot of coaches that would rather punt or go for it then attempt a field goal.

 

In the end, you are trying to rate kickers from camps where they line up with no rush, usually perfect conditions, lots of time they dont even have pads on.

 

I think that if you are a coach and you find a good kicker/punter, one that is going to be valuable for 4 years, you offer him.

[Apathy]

Since we're on the subject of kickers, future Husker walk-on Jason Dann has a nice Q&A article here. His longest field goal in high school was a 50-yarder when he was a sophomore.

Isn't Jason Dann from Texas? (I'm sure it says it in the link but too lazy to open it )

[Nexus]

Since we're on the subject of kickers, future Husker walk-on Jason Dann has a nice Q&A article here. His longest field goal in high school was a 50-yarder when he was a sophomore.

Isn't Jason Dann from Texas? (I'm sure it says it in the link but too lazy to open it )

 

 

 

Yes he is.

[irieboy8]

I'm of the opinion that unless a kicker is in the top 5 in the nation, you don't offer him a scholarship. It's a position, that while important, isn't as important as other positions (namely QB). Sure a kicker can become a great weapon, but who else besides Henery has been able to change the flow of games. Add to that we already have 5+ kickers and punters on the team.

 

I know what you are saying but rating high school kickers is hard as hell. First of all, most of them dont attempt but maybe 10 FGs a year it seems like, then you have scrubs playing special teams so you get bad snaps, bad blocking, bad holds. You have a lot of coaches that would rather punt or go for it then attempt a field goal.

 

In the end, you are trying to rate kickers from camps where they line up with no rush, usually perfect conditions, lots of time they dont even have pads on.

 

I think that if you are a coach and you find a good kicker/punter, one that is going to be valuable for 4 years, you offer him.

 

 

i totally agree... here in hawaii 9 out of 10 times when its in a resaonable field goal range and its four down the kicker is never called out cause in more cases or not there is NO kicker... just some other player who just happens to suck the least... it gets pretty bad...... but one of the better programs over here actually went pretty deep in the play-offs (state title game but lost) just because they had a guy (who TRANSFERED FROM FLORIDA) who kicked field goals from 20-35 yards.........

 

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[teachercd]

Heck most Kickers in high school are just tossed to the side during practice to "go kick" with no coaching.

[Danimal]

I'm of the opinion that unless a kicker is in the top 5 in the nation, you don't offer him a scholarship. It's a position, that while important, isn't as important as other positions (namely QB). Sure a kicker can become a great weapon, but who else besides Henery has been able to change the flow of games. Add to that we already have 5+ kickers and punters on the team.

 

I know what you are saying but rating high school kickers is hard as hell. First of all, most of them dont attempt but maybe 10 FGs a year it seems like, then you have scrubs playing special teams so you get bad snaps, bad blocking, bad holds. You have a lot of coaches that would rather punt or go for it then attempt a field goal.

 

In the end, you are trying to rate kickers from camps where they line up with no rush, usually perfect conditions, lots of time they dont even have pads on.

 

I think that if you are a coach and you find a good kicker/punter, one that is going to be valuable for 4 years, you offer him.

 

I agree. In a tight game a kicker can make the difference between an L and a W. Maybe that schollie kicker only makes two kicks a year the average walk-on wouldn't have but if those might be some very important kicks. If I remember correctly FSU's famous "wide rights" against Miami came because the noles didn't want to spend a schollie on a kicker. Ya sometimes walk-ons like Henery turn-out great, and if you're good enough at recruiting and fortunate you can get-by with not offering very many kickers. But eventually it will bite you in the ass if you get too stingy.

[kchusker_chris]

The kid sounds like a great kicker and I hope we offer him, but I really doubt it. Bo has proven that he prefers to have kickers, punters, and long snappers walk-on and then earn a scholarship. We have not offered a kicker a scholarship since Adi Kunalic who was recruited by Callahan and chose to stay on board with Bo.

That's because Bo has had Henery on the roster for his first 3 classes. Not exactly an urgency to sign a kicker is there? If Kunalic ends up with a RS year - then this guy would be coming in as a RS Freshman with a year in the system. Perfect timing to sign a kicker IMHO.

[Husker N KC]

The kid sounds like a great kicker and I hope we offer him, but I really doubt it. Bo has proven that he prefers to have kickers, punters, and long snappers walk-on and then earn a scholarship. We have not offered a kicker a scholarship since Adi Kunalic who was recruited by Callahan and chose to stay on board with Bo.

That's because Bo has had Henery on the roster for his first 3 classes. Not exactly an urgency to sign a kicker is there? If Kunalic ends up with a RS year - then this guy would be coming in as a RS Freshman with a year in the system. Perfect timing to sign a kicker IMHO.

 

I am not saying I agree with their strategy, but Bo and Papuchis have both said they want all specialists (kickers, punters, long snappers) to be preffered walk-ons and earn their scholarship. Will this always be the case? I dont know. That is just the facts of what they have said in interviews, not my opinion. I totally agree if it is the right kid you give a schollie, but I'm not the coach.