Meet Roberto Aguayo, the NFL’s Most Promising Kicking Prospect This Century

February 24, 2016   ·   Brad Gagnon   ·   Jump to comments

If you were hiking through the woods just off Palmetto Drive in Mascotte, Florida, at any point between 2003 and 2009, you had to beware of flying footballs. 
The footballs in question were launched toward the tree line over and over again, hour after hour, by adolescent kicking sensation Roberto Aguayo and his younger brother, Ricky. 
The brothers would take turns kicking and shagging the few balls they owned, aiming between the makeshift field-goal uprights their father, Roberto Sr., had constructed using PVC pipes and a soccer goal at the boundary of the family's Lake County property. 
This came before Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000-hour rule—which posits that it typically requires 10,000 hours of practice to master a craft—had been popularized. But even as a preteen unaware of such a notion, Roberto was a perfectionist. He was intent on mastering the craft of kicking by banking hours in that yard.
When Roberto became a teenager and ou...

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