Nick Pollard was all set to be the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football team’s kicker as a freshman last season. He’ll get another shot this season.
The former Tennessee Mr. Football Kicker of the Year from Father Ryan kicked well in the preseason last August before suffering a leg injury that forced him to miss the 2010 season.
Staff File Photo by Dan Henry/Chattanooga Times Free Press
Chattanooga Mocs kicker Nick Pollard makes a field goal during a team scrimmage.“He was our guy. He was kicking good in camp and was fired up,” Mocs coach Russ Huesman said Tuesday, before the team practiced under the lights at Finley Stadium.
Pollard tore one of the quadriceps muscles in his right leg and never could get the strength back. Against Appalachian State in the season opener, Pollard went 1-for-2 on extra points in relief of fill-in Mike Hammons and sat the rest of the season, taking a medical redshirt.
The Mocs finished last season 4-of-10 on field goals and had six missed extra points. Some of those misses helped keep them out of the playoffs.