It’s not often a special teams coordinator invokes skiing when analyzing a kicker. It’s also unusual to have a 28-year-old rookie who never played football in high school.
Meet Andy Phillips, the Bears’ undrafted rookie kicker out of Utah who was once an Olympic hopeful for downhill skiing and spent his four years of college as the old guy.
“It was fun. A lot of fun. It put me in a unique position as a kicker to be a leader of the team, which I don’t think you see very often around the US,” Phillips said last week during rookie minicamp.