BDPOTG: Ryan Pretorius & Aaron Pettrey
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 PK Ryan Pretorius |
 PK Aaron Pettrey |
It’s not too often when a place-kicker, or in this case place-kickers, are the players of the game. But when it comes down to winning conference titles and national championships, it’s not just offense or defense, but special teams as well.
It’s a luxury not only to one very good kicker, but two, and on Saturday Ryan Pretorius and Aaron Pettrey showed that they could really boot that ball.
Pretorius was 4-of-4 in field goal attempts and converted both of his PATs. He made field goals of 28, 31, 26, and 50 yards.
Pettrey drilled his only field goal attempt from 54 yards, and would of made it from 10 yards or so farther.
Sure, Beanie Wells was having a good game before his toe injury, Todd Boeckman had a solid afternoon throwing the ball. The defense, all 23 of them who recorded at least one statistic, could also be named as players of the game. But for week one’s edition of “The Best Damn Player of the Game,” the voters have spoken.
