Kicker looking forward to camps

College Station (Texas) A&M Consolidated kicker Zach Myatt might live in Aggie country, but he will not be making his career kicking field goals for Texas A&M.

Texas A&M doesn’t need a kicker this year. They got one last year when a four-star kicker, Todd Pegram, signed with them.

In the Rivals football database it only shows seven kickers with scholarship offers and most of those only have one offer.

The 5-foot-11, 165 pound Myatt doesn’t have his yet, but a few might come quite soon.

He just returned from a Baylor camp, where he was totally impressed by their facilities.

“They have gigantic lockers,” he said about the Baylor locker room. “They have like ten leather couches and big-screen TVs everywhere. It is the nicest facilities I have seen.”

He did really well at the Louisiana Tech, SMU and Baylor camps, but they have not offered him yet. Baylor did not need a kicker, but he said that Louisiana Tech was definitely going to offer him.

“Nebraska this weekend (Jun. 22).”

He has high hopes for an offer from Nebraska.

“My dad called the coach, as we had sent them a highlight video of me kicking," he said. "The coach was talking to my dad a real long time and they said they were going to be recruiting a kicker."

"The coach was going to watch my video and he wanted to see me kick in person. If I did well, there would be a scholarship there for a kicker. I was really happy to hear that, so I’m hoping I’ll do well at that camp.”

“Yes sir, that is my favorite school as a fan, but also it is my dream school,” he said about Nebraska. “If I got to go there, it would be like a dream come true. They have always been my favorite.”

After he visits Nebraska he makes a trip to LSU.

“They (LSU) said they looked at my video,” he said. “They said they really liked my video and how I looked on there. They are going to have a scholarship for a kicker and they want to see me at the camp. They said they had kickers there earlier, but none stood out. They said if I did good, I might have a chance there.”

His longest field goals in a game came from 48-yards out and he did that in both of his last two years. His longest kick in practice was from 60-yards out.

“When I kick them from the 40-yard line, I consistently kick them into the back of the end zone or a yard deep out of the end zone,” he said about kickoffs. “Then when I kick from the 35-yard line, I’m pretty consistent from the goal line to three yards deep.”

In high school he has been kicking field goals off of a two-inch tee, but at the Louisiana Tech, SMU and Baylor camps and camps in the past, he kicked off of the ground. “I did really well kicking off of the ground.”

At the Louisiana Tech camp he was booting them with ease without a tee from 50-yards out. The kicks at SMU and Baylor they were from 45-yards out. “I hit those really easy off of the ground.”

“My dad told me at the SMU camp that it looked like I was not hardly even trying. If I can just stay smooth, you don’t even have to try that much.”

In his junior year he averaged 40.2 yards on his punts. He had six of his punts were down inside the 20-yard line, which would bring down his average per punt.

He and Todd Pegram are close friends and they have been competing against each other in the past at Texas A&M camps and around at other camps.