This story originally ran in the 12.3 Issue of GoDuke, the Magazine -- Oct. 2020
Charlie Ham, Porter Wilson and Duke football first intersected sometime in the summer of 2018.
Kirk Benedict thinks June 15 and he should know. Benedict coaches Duke's special teams and he was looking for a kicker or two. Duke was hosting a one-day camp and had invited two specialists, placekicker Ham and punter Wilson.
It was love at first sight, at least from Duke's perspective.
"When we had both of them in camp, if I could have done a back flip I would have done on both cases a back flip," David Cutcliffe recalls.