How can you get a try out for an NFL team as a kicker?

Answer 1

Most teams have a "walk on" practice date, where random people are allowed to walk into the practice field and do a quick round of tryouts to see if they can make the team.

In most communities and especially at the professional level (NFL), it's something more of a community event in the recent past. Fans usually get together, sometimes dress up in truly ridiculous outfits, hold a cookout, generally drink to excess, and then more or less pretend to try out for the team.

The team allows the events and to some extent entertains the antics of their fans, but realistically it's almost unheard of for anyone trying to "walk on" to a professional team to be able to do so.

Most professional athletes will have contacts such as a football coach from high school or college that has a connection with a football team, and can somehow arrange for a genuine tryout for the player if they feel they have potential. Usually, a team will have scouts and they can be contacted by credible sources (meaning not the player or his family) and they'll often arrange a tryout.

In many cases, the aspiring players put together tapes of their workouts or practices (in this case, kicking field goals) and send the video of the kicks into the team for them to look at. If the team is interested, they'll contact the player.

I'm certain there are other methods to getting a tryout for a pro team too, but these tend to be the most common ways aside from entering the NFL draft.