Matt Araiza: college football’s breakout star is ... a punter?

The San Diego State junior can boom kicks more than 80 yards and seems to set a new record every week. The NFL has duly taken notice

Punting is one of those things non-punters rarely think about. It's like the post office. It's there. It does a job. But it's rarely important unless someone makes a mistake.

There has never been a rockstar of the profession. Punting is punting, its own individual craft, left to the side, away from the real players. Pat McAfee has morphed into the sport's most popular, mainstream entertainer post-career. Marquette King gave it a good go for a while with the Raiders, before his flamboyance saw him exiled from the starchy world of the professional game.