UCLA coach Jim Mora will have to wait until Sept. 3 to get the full answer to what he called his team’s “great unknown.”
The Bruins have three true freshman specialists in kicker JJ Molson, punter Austin Kent and long snapper Johnny Den Bleyker. Mora was impressed with the trio’s consistency during training camp, but knows kicking under the pressure of a game is going to be a different task.
“Let’s see how they do in front of 105 (thousand) people instead of just trees and mountains and a few fans,” Mora said.
All three specialists were ranked in the top five nationally at their respective positions for the 2016 recruiting class.