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December 4 2021
'The next kick': Matthew Wright parlays Knights success into football career
Late in the Jacksonville Jaguars' sixth regular season game, tied 20-20 against the Miami Dolphins with one second left, they called a time-out.
The Jaguars looked to Matthew Wright, their new kicker who signed onto the team's active roster Oct. 16, the day before the away game in London. With all eyes on him, Wright scored a 53-yard field goal that set the score at 23-20 and marked the end of the Jaguars' 20-game losing streak. The next day, Jaguars Head Coach Urban Meyer made Wright the team's starting kicker.
"Now everybody knows who Matt is," Meyer said in a postgame press conference.
'All that matters is the next kick': Matthew Wright’s journey from UCF to pro
Wright, the Jaguars' new kicker, celebrates with his teammates. John Manion, Wright's head coach when he was a student at Lampeter-Strasburg High School in Pennsylvania, said everyone can vouch for Wright's character. “Everybody loves him that knows him: his teachers, his coaches, his friends," Manion said.
Courtesy of the Jacksonville Jaguars