The National Football League (NFL) season is coming to an end with the AFC and NFC Championship Games taking place on Sunday, January 25, with a view to finding out the two teams that will play in Super Bowl LX on Sunday, February 8 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
The winners in the duels between the New England Patriots and the Denver Broncos, as well as the Los Angeles Rams and the Seattle Seahawks, are a mystery, but what is certain is that another year has passed in which there was no player born in Mexico among the 32 rosters of each of the franchises that make up the most expensive league on planet Earth.
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Jesus Gomez and his beginnings with Puebla in Liga MX
However, that could change for the next campaign as a player born in Puebla, Mexico, has declared himself eligible for the next Draft. He is Jesus Gomez, 22 years old (October 22, 2003), who plays as a place kicker, or in other words, a field goal kicker.
The life story of Jesus Salvador Gomez Juarez is very interesting, since from an early age he practiced soccer, to the point that he was part of the basic forces of the Camoteros del Puebla of the Liga MX. However, he soon got bored with this sport and switched to tackle football in high school, where he then enrolled in the ranks of Prepa Tec in Puebla. At first he played the positions of wide receiver and linebacker, however, his father convinced him to switch to try field goals and there he became outstanding.
Jesus Gomez and his idol: Checo Perez
That talent was demonstrated when he was recruited by Eastern Michigan University, where he was a five-star prospect (the highest possible) and there he had good performances from the 2021 to 2024 seasons not only in sports, in academics he was notable as a mechanical engineer, a career to which he enrolled for his love of cars and especially motorsports, all this for his idolatry for the Mexican driver, Sergio ‘Checo’ Perez.
For the past campaign, he entered the transfer portal and ended his NCAA career as a player for the Arizona State Sun Devils, where he connected on all the extra points he attempted, as well as 73% of his field goals.
