Todd Carter signs with Carolina Panthers

Todd Carter, former Grand Valley State University ('08) kicker signed a contract with Carolina Panthers on Tuesday, April 6th.

Todd has always had an exceptionally strong leg. But when we first started working together in December '08, his consistency was terrible. We agreed that instead of making a sloppy run at the NFL when he wasn't ready, we will take a full year, change up his mechanics a bit, and train with the goal of getting on a team in the spring of 2010.

We shortened his field goal approach, cut out his jab step, adjusted his body lean and increased the length and speed of his kickoff approach.

And 15 months later, after workouts with Chiefs and Panthers, Todd had 2 contract offers. He chose Panthers because he will have the opportunity to win a job as a kickoff specialist.

Here is a short article about Todd's signing from Yahoo front page -

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Double-threat-Todd-Carter-kicks-deep-makes-smo?urn=nfl,232798

Check out Todd's monster kickoffs here -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__ii2NNZ0Mw

Congrats Todd !!!

Filip Filipovic
TheKickingCoach.com