Arguably more exciting than the first week of the year and the Will Carter Bowl itself, draft day is a franchise changing moment for many teams. Finding the sleepers, avoiding the busts, and fixing the holes on a roster, each owner does their best to find the future stars of the league and add them to their roster.

There are many different tactics that owners have in the draft. For some, trading roster players to get higher up in the draft is the best strategy. For others, trading out of the first round or the draft all together is the best way to rebuild your team.

But one of the most interesting tactics ever seen in Will Carter history was that of Joe’s “Joe for Broke” roster in the second round of the 2016 Rookie Draft. With talent like Ezekiel Elliott, Michael Thomas, and Derrick Henry already off the board, Joe took a page right out of Jason Licht’s playbook. Just like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who drafted kicker Roberto Aguayo in the second round of the 2016 NFL draft, Joe decided that the 17th overall draft pick of the Will Carter Rookie Draft should be Aguyao.

Upon ridicule for the pick moments after the selection was made, Joe commented “Just wait. You’ll see.” It is unconfirmed if Joe’s binder of pie charts and bar graphs were on-hand during his draft that year.

Coming off a year where Joe’s relatively unknown kicker, Adam Vinatieri, averaged 8.3 points a game, Joe banked on Aguayo to come in and increase his weekly totals with unheard of kicker numbers. However, things didn’t go according to plan.

Aguayo averaged just 6.375 points per game in the 2016 season, making only 22 of his 31 field goal attempts. Included in this rough season for Aguayo was a tough season for Joe, where he finished 4-9. Looking deeper at the stats, we see a match-up during Week 2 where Joe lost to Jim by 4.9 points in which Chandler Catanzaro outscored Aguayo 11 to 1.

While Aguayo may have only directly cost Joe one game, there is also the fact Joe missed out on players such as Jordan Howard, Kenyan Drake, Dak Prescott, and Jared Goff, all drafted after Aguayo. Howard has averaged 12 points a game in his two years in the league thus far, Drake had 4 games of 15 points or more in the final 8 games of 2017, Prescott has averaged 17 points per game since entering the NFL, and Goff’s sophomore season had him averaging 17 points per game as well.

While we will never see a kicker drafted too early in the league again with the kicker position being eliminated from the rosters, we can always remember this Great Moment in Will Carter History…a fond memory for at least 11 members of the league.