Looking for a few kamikaze practice squad bodies, the Nevada football team held an open tryout for students six days before their season opener against Northwestern in 2017. What the Wolf Pack found was a skinny, long-haired kicker whose foot just made a different noise than others when it struck the ball.
A Las Vegas native, Ramiz Ahmed had kicked for local powerhouse Bishop Gorman — but not in the three seasons since. He attended Arizona State and UNLV as a student, not a football player, before going to Nevada. He was skinny and raw — and had a shoulder that, rather inconveniently, often popped out of socket.