There’s a good chances teams in need of a kicker could have an extra free agent to look at for the 2020 season. After all the attention garnered by her 55-yard boot during a Baltimore Ravens and Philadelphia Eagles practice, United States Soccer star Carli Lloyd is seriously thinking about kicking in the NFL.
She would likely find plenty of suitors.
According to ESPN, her manager, James Galanis, said that if she decided to pursue NFL kicking, it’ll be for the 2020 season.
“If she (Lloyd) is going to do this, she’ll do it,” Galanis said. “She’ll train in the offseason, she’ll get herself ready so that she just doesn’t do it for the sake of doing it. If she’s going to do it, she’s going to do it so that she can be a success.”
Waiting until next season is Lloyd’s choice. According to NBC Sports, she had an offer to kick in the final preseason game for an NFL team this week.
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— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) August 28, 2019
Galanis seems to already have a plan in place for Lloyd when she’s ready to pull the trigger.
“We’ll try kicking balls with a couple of steps,” Galanis said. “And if her range is still the same . . . then that’s an important piece we knocked over because we’ll know that she can kick the ball 55 yards with two steps, the same way an NFL player could. Once we knock that over, we’ll contact one of the NFL teams and tell them that we’re interested and we’d like to come down and spend some time with their field goal-kicking coaches and let them make some tweaks and fix her technique or adjust her technique. From there, bring in the team, and she can do it live at training in kind of like a realistic situation.”
The NFL does have a solid rival suitor to Lloyd, who will be 38 next year. She’s stated in the past she wants to play for another Olympic gold medal, her third, and the games just so happen to be scheduled for 2020.
