The Rebels' specialists shop includes a couple of experienced footmen, and Gleeson in particular should take last year's accolades to the bank in 2015.
Collegiate football games generally begin with a kickoff, and so in a very singular sense of the word "important" the players who physically carry out the "foot" aspects of football games are the most important players on the field.
Arguments of course abound on the pertinence and provenance of teams' kicking apparatus, and normally they tussle over strategy, and thus coaches' decision-making. How much faith does this or that head coach have in his place-kicker's accuracy and cannon between opponents' 30 and 40 yard lines?