NFL Tryouts????? Help Me Out Please

[joseephuss]

Goal posts in high school and college are alot wider than in the NFL.

Good point about the high school goal posts.

Football Field Goal Dimensions

* NFL - 10' height 18'6" width
* CFL - 10' height 18'6" width
* NCAA - 10' height 18'6" width (since 1991)
* High School - 10' height 23'4" width (games may be played on fields with goalposts that are 18'6 by state adoption)
* Arena Football - 15' height 9' width

(Height = to Crossbar)


Are they still allowed tees on FG attempts in high school?

I am pretty sure the kick off tees in high school are also higher than the ones at the next level. College rules were recently changed to use the NFL height tees(1")

High school guys kick off at the 40 where college is the 35 yard line I believe and the NFL is the 30.


I agree with the opinion that going to a JUCO is your best bet to getting started. Have your coach there give you help in contacting teams.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

I'm not sure if all the arena teams do this, but the Dallas Desperados hold open tryouts yearly. That might be an option?

 

[manimal]

I'm not sure if all the arena teams do this, but the Dallas Desperados hold open tryouts yearly. That might be an option?

And I am pretty sure the Cowboys signed the Desparados kicker for the practice squad so there is an opening.

 

[ppcorn81]

guys that are giving me information i thank you guys alot and for the guy that said i didnt get recruited out of high school is because i only played my senior , year ive actually been a soccer player my whole life and have a strong leg , my longest field goal in high school was 51 yards and ive been trainin , working out my legs and workin on accuracy ...... yah i understand juco is an option but i think hiring an agent and maybe gettin a tryout is a better option, any of you guys know how i can contact nfl agents??????

watch out for me in the future , i will be the next dallas cowboys kicker for a long time

 

[Cochese]

Go to a community college, if you are as good as you think you should have d-1 coaches knocking down your door to sign you.

 

[stealth]

do any of you guys know how can i contact these coaches from the nfl........and i know about the 3 year rule, but i figured id be smart of me to start exploring the possibilities now instead of waitin for 3 years

find a junior college with a football program if you are good you can pull a scholarship and won't have to pay for college. Even still you can apply for a pell grant from the government and still not pay for college. In short you need to go to college. Whether you finish it or not isn't important if you have a golden leg, but you need to go to college. in summary go to college. Hiring an agent when you played one year of football isnt the better option, its the short sighted option. Play one year on a college level team at least, then do a web search for sports agents. That you can't even figure out how to get an agent should tell you an edjucation is your friend. There are a ton of things NFL teams want in a player and maturity and having shown a willingness to follow through with things is one of them. GO TO COLLEGE

 

[YosemiteSam]

Hey Im A 19 Year Old Guy Who Played High School Football And Waas The Kicker For My School , I Never Went To College Tho But I Can Kick The Ball And Im Accurate Kicking Field Goals, Real Accurate......anyone Know If There Are Tryouts For Teams Or How I Can Get Help To Maybe Get A Tryout??????

Capitalization of the first letter of the first word in a sentance and proper nouns are generally the only time you capitalize letters. Capitalizing every word in a sentence is incorrect. The NFL checks for that in the tryouts, so you should keep that in mind.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

Hey Im A 19 Year Old Guy Who Played High School Football And Waas The Kicker For My School , I Never Went To College Tho But I Can Kick The Ball And Im Accurate Kicking Field Goals, Real Accurate......anyone Know If There Are Tryouts For Teams Or How I Can Get Help To Maybe Get A Tryout??????

I think I can work out a good deal with Parcells.

He is an old man who doesn't know right from wrong. Just say you are from Jersey or once kicked for the Giants or Jets. He'll be putty in our hands.

We'll be rich, rich I tell you!

And never have gone to college is a nonfactor. Look at all these people at the Zone. Most never been to college. Most never even wore shoes. And they all turned out good, with the exception of that guy who likes paint.

 

[superpunk]

stealth....you suck at science.

 

[RW31]

Capitalization of the first letter of the first word in a sentance and proper nouns are generally the only time you capitalize letters. Capitalizing every word in a sentence is incorrect. The NFL checks for that in the tryouts, so you should keep that in mind.

TEH FUNNI!!!1oneone

 

[stealth]

Hahaha

I Assumed I Got That Out Of There Before Anyone Saw It.
May You Be Darned All To Heck You And Your Little Leapordman Too.

AND IT WOULD SEEM I ROCK AT SCIENCE THE FORUM JUST LIKES TO MOCK ME.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

That you can't even figure out how to get an agent should tell you an edjucation is your friend. GO TO COLLEGE

Maybe just not the one stealth did! :

 

[stealth]

Maybe just not the one stealth did! :

I always put that j in there when typing something about lazy keystrokes.
Now I don't even bother changing it, its kinda like a trademark for me.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

I always put that j in there when typing something about lazy keystrokes.
Now I don't even bother changing it, its kinda like a trademark for me.

Sooo, "trademark" is code for "didn't know how to spell it, so I sounded it out phonetically"? K, got'cha!

 

[stealth]

no trade mark is the j is below the u and as I type I drag my fingers rether than lift them and censistently I hit the j. You are talking to the 8th grade speling be champien, watch your-self smarty pants. I don't ever make the mestake on paper and pensil, You can call my mommie and ask her.

 

[Jimz31]

What Reality said is true....film your kicking and send the tapes.

My cousin has been a kicker in the Arena league for quite a while and has had tryout with come NFL teams (Cowboys included).

In fact, the first Cowboy game that I iwent to was thanks to him....they gave all of the guys that tried out tickets to one of the games and he gave them to me.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

no trade mark is the j is below the u and as I type I drag my fingers rether than lift them and censistently I hit the j.

So you're saying you're a knuckle-dragger?

 

[step]

You have to play in college. Even a tiny school. But you must go to school. If you cannot or will not, don't even have fantasies about the NFL. The Arena leagues have try outs, but I think you missed them for this upcoming season. If you can get on an Arena team, be thrilled and live life. Arena football is great, forget the NFL dream, and be thrilled your getting decent money to kick in a game. But, honestly, dude, you do know you have almost zero chance at this, right?

 

[DBoys]

You have to play in college. Even a tiny school. But you must go to school. If you cannot or will not, don't even have fantasies about the NFL. The Arena leagues have try outs, but I think you missed them for this upcoming season. If you can get on an Arena team, be thrilled and live life. Arena football is great, forget the NFL dream, and be thrilled your getting decent money to kick in a game. But, honestly, dude, you do know you have almost zero chance at this, right?

Nothing is impossible in the USA. If the kid has talent and the understanding to work hard he can make it.

51 yards at 19 is pretty impressive. Very few college kickers can hit from that far.

 

[StanleySpadowski]

Nothing is impossible in the USA. If the kid has talent and the understanding to work hard he can make it.

51 yards at 19 is pretty impressive. Very few college kickers can hit from that far.

The problem is that you usually don't get much longer as you age and almost every DI kicker can make 50 yarders with ease without a rush.

Trust me when I say this. You must kick at a college, be it juco, DIII, DII... even if it's only for one year.

I've may have shared my story before but here it goes anyway: I kicked in high school and had a few partial offers, nothing great but I took a DI wrestling scholarship instead. They were DI wrestling, DII football.

I screwed around kicking on the practice field now and then with a few buddies, but nothing serious. The regular kicker (his brother kicked in the NFL for quite a few years) was injured before my junior year. The coach must have seen me goofing around and asked me to walk on after OKing it with my coach. I was 8 of 12 or 13 for the year with a long of 43 and missed a couple of XPs. Great for me, pretty crappy for a real kicker.

Anyway, I was starting grad school second semester my redshirt junior year (wrestling) when I received a call from an NFL team asking me in for a tryout based on the "free unlimited locals" rule. I think they were looking for someone to kickoff past the 20 so they could judge a few KO returners. I declined because quite frankly, I sucked but the moral is that one year at a DII school got my foot in the door if I would have wanted to take it.