'This would never have even been a dream because I never even thought that it was a possibility,' Michigan Panthers and Tomball native Jake Bates said.
Sunday's game between Houston Roughnecks and Michigan Panthers will be homecoming for Michigan's kicker.When placekicking, the uprights dictate the direction. But a narrow path like the one attached to the goal post is not the route taken by Tomball's Jake Bates .
Kicking for the Michigan Panthers of the United Football League, Bates enters the weekend with 15 field goals made this season. That total is 15 more than the Tomball High School product had made his entire career - at any level. That's because he played only one season of high school football, doing exclusively kickoffs, before going to the University of Central Arkansas to play soccer.
That plan included returning to football after his college soccer career concluded. Jake was a kickoff specialist at both Texas State and Arkansas, but he still did not make a field goal. He did make a pair of extra points for the Texans during the 2023 preseason before being cut.With a great foot and great fortitude, Bates kept training even after getting a "real job." Just weeks after starting to work as a sales rep for Acme Brick in the Cypress area, the Michigan Panthers called.
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