Punters, as a rule, do not get a lot of attention. Even those with long, successful NFL careers often get more headlines for writing a book or doing a dance or being a ninja than they do for kicking a football. People laugh at punters when they tell jokes, but people also laugh at punters when they get kicked in the face. Even the Rams' Johnny Hekker, by all accounts an excellent punter (he was first-team all-pro in both 2013 and 2015), is better known for his trick-play proficiency or his, um, opportunistic blocking than for being one of the very best in the world at his chosen profession.
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