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NFL Draft 2018: Matthew McCrane

Matthew McCrane, K | Height: 5’10” | Weight: 165 lb

Cast your collective memories back to the evening of January 1, 2015. Kansas State was in a down-to-the-wire dogfight (involving cats, and bears, and no dogs, oh my) with UCLA at the Alamo Bowl. With less than a minute to go, the Wildcats had closed to within a score. It was, of course, onside kick time.

Kansas State lined up in the predicted formation, and everyone knew what was coming. And then this happened:

Rabona kicks are relatively common in soccer, but they’re so rare in college football that Matthew McCrane became something of an instant bowl game celebrity afterwards.