Jaguars cut rookie kicker after 1 of his 3 field goal misses hit ex-Cowboys coach
Undrafted free agent kicker Andrew Mevis hasn’t had an amazing begin to his NFL profession.
4 days into his first coaching camp, Mevis was lower by the Jacksonville Jaguars after lacking three discipline targets through the group’s Thursday warm-ups, based on ESPN’s Michael DiRocco. A kind of discipline targets reportedly missed its mark so badly that it hit former Dallas Cowboys head coach Dave Campo within the shoulder, and the opposite two weren’t even near the goalposts.
Campo, 75, was an assistant coach and defensive backs coach for the Jaguars from 2005-2007 and is at present a advisor for the USC Trojans and a neighborhood radio character. He coached the Cowboys from 2000-2002.
Mevis went undrafted out of Iowa State and spent his first three seasons kicking at Fordham earlier than taking part in for the Cyclones. He made 40-61 discipline targets in school, together with 20-23 in 2021, and made two additional factors on the 2022 Senior Bowl.
Now, if City Mayer had nonetheless been head coach, possibly he would have carried out extra than simply lower Mevis. The former Jaguars coach reportedly kicked Josh Lambo final offseason earlier than he lower the veteran kicker after Lambo missed a number of makes an attempt throughout coaching camp.
Luckily for Mevis, all he obtained was a pink slip and a few embarrassment from hitting a bystander. It seems like Josh Allen’s “professional locker room” comments relating to the brand new Jaguars regime beneath head coach Doug Pederson are true, in spite of everything.
The Jaguars signed veteran kicker Elliott Fry to compete with Ryan Santoso for the beginning kicker job.
