With the recent signing of former Oakland Raiders kicker Sebastian Janikowski the Seattle Seahawks raised the eyebrows of some fans, with some wondering why the team doesn’t just draft a kicker to replace the Blair Walsh experiment. The answer, surprisingly, is that in spite of the fact that there are 253 college football programs just between FBS and FCS, there is a shortage of kicking talent available to NFL teams through the draft.
That may seem ludicrous, but rather than stumble over myself as I attempt to explain this, it will be easier to simply use the stats to prove my point.