Pressley Harvin: Difference Between Punting Motion And Kicking Motion ‘Is Everything’

It’s one thing to be a punter and then to be suddenly put on the spot when your team’s kicker gets injured, and you are called upon to be the next man up to do a job that you’re not trained for. It’s at an entire other level when that happens during the first half of your rookie season, as it did for Pittsburgh Steelers seventh-round draft pick Pressley Harvin III.

Facing the Cleveland Browns in week eight a week ago from his past Sunday, the Steelers ran a fake field goal late in the first half that asked Boswell to roll to his right and try to hit one of his tight ends on a pass. Instead, the Browns responded to the late snap on a motion, reading the fake, and it was Boswell who took the…