Dustin Colquitt emulated his father Craig by not just becoming an NFL punter but a Super Bowl champion, with the Kansas City Chiefs in 2020.<\/p>\n
Colquitt spent 15 seasons with the Chiefs, setting the franchise record for most games (238), but he grew up dreaming of playing in the Premier League.<\/p>\n
He played football at high school, earning college scholarship offers, and remains a big football fan.<\/p>\n
He remembers cheering on Kane during World Cup games and, asked if the ex-Tottenham striker could become an NFL kicker, Colquitt told BBC Sport: “Absolutely, if he focused on it. He would do fantastic. I’ve seen some of his finishing skills.<\/p>\n
“I would love to actually work with him just because I love soccer, and his excitement. He’s seeking this out – that’s part of the fibre of his being, that he wants to try this NFL thing.”<\/p>\n
Almost always, a team’s punter holds the ball in place for kickers. As Colquitt puts it, a punter “holds the kicker’s job literally in his hands” and “if you have a bad hold, really bad things happen”.<\/p>\n
So if and when Kane begins to practise kicking, he needs an experienced holder, otherwise his bid to become a two-sport athlete could be over before it has truly begun.<\/p>\n
“The guy that holds for those field goals, that is extremely important – knowing where the laces [on the ball] are, if you’ve got wind,” Colquitt said.<\/p>\n
“So when he’s ready, I’m ready.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dustin Colquitt emulated his father Craig by not just becoming an NFL punter but a Super Bowl champion,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-260603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}