In the beginning, there was no coach. No camp. At the start, Robert Soderholm III had only one thing.
YouTube.
That’s how he learned to long snap.
And he means that literally.
How to long snap. That’s what he typed into his YouTube search bar to begin figuring out how to become a long snapper. His football career started as a center, though that’s a different craft than actually snapping. But he stopped growing before his high school competition did, moving him to linebacker at Mountainview High in Virginia. To get off the JV team, he went back to snapping, doubling as his team’s linebacker and long snapper.