re: Colt David-- NFL prospect?

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maybe punter yeah, but it's hard for me to believe a team would waste a valuable roster spot on someone to do kickoffs only. and he still has to prove he can, most kickers in the NFL do both.

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Off the top of my head, in the Saints division which is the only one I follow closely, Carolina has a KO specialist and the punter for the blackbirds, Koenen I think, does their kick-offs. The Saints employed a KO specialist or a punter who could KO through all the John Carney years, so until he left that was 3 of the 4 teams in the SE division. I recently read an article referring to the fact that NFL kick-off averages were down and coverage stats were declining. They talked about the fact that most of the best place-kickers in the league only averaged about 60 yards on their kick-offs. David has a big field goal leg and he will get a shot some where. I see no reason he can't kick-off 60 yard line drives like the majority of place-kickers in the league are doing.