
Lorenzo Fernandez is a senior punter at Archbishop McCarthy in Weston, Florida, and the leg is the story. He averaged 47.8 yards on 28 punts as a junior, and he has been better this fall against the best competition on his schedule: 50.4 yards a punt on seven attempts against St. Thomas Aquinas, and 52.3 on six against The First Academy Orlando. Averages above 50 against programs of that caliber are college numbers, not high school ones. He is also not a specialist in the usual sense. At 5-11 and 186 pounds with a 245-pound bench and a 405-pound squat he carries a linebacker's strength profile, and he plays safety when he is not punting — nine tackles as a junior, with more this season. A punter who can run, tackle and execute a fake changes what a coordinator is able to call. Six clips are on file, five from this senior season. Then the transcript: a 5.0 weighted GPA and a 31 ACT, which clears the bar at every program in the country, including the ones where admissions is the hardest recruiter to satisfy.
Senior punter: 50.4 and 52.3 averages this fall, a 31 ACT