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Lobos football needs answers when it comes to place-kicking

The field-goal kicking game for the University of New Mexico appears to be an area of concern.

That much can be seen during spring football.

The Lobos have three walk-on place-kickers: George Steinkamp, Zach Benedict and Luke Drzewiecki.

Steinkamp, a senior who excelled in soccer at Los Lunas, has the most experience. Yet his first year of football came in 2020, when he made 6 of 11 field-goal attempts for New Mexico. Last year, he backed up then-senior Andrew Shelley, and missed his only field-goal attempt. Instead, Steinkamp was the man when it came to kickoffs, booting the ball for 24 touchbacks out of 38 kickoffs.