Instead of listening to the president of Panama address Georgia Tech graduates Saturday morning, new Panthers kicker Harrison Butker will be getting tips from special teams coordinator Thomas McGaughey to help his post-college transition.
Butker, a seventh-round pick and the first drafted kicker in franchise history, is skipping Georgia Tech’s commencement exercises to attend the Panthers’ rookie minicamp this week.
The two-day minicamp is scheduled to wrap up early Saturday afternoon not long after Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela imparts a few pearls of wisdom to the Tech grads.
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Butker insists there’s nowhere he’d rather be.