One of the top players in Georgia State football history, Wil Lutz has gone on to become a Pro Bowl player in the NFL. The video above was filmed last summer by the Oakey Agency, and the story below appears in the current issue of GSU Magazine. 

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Two seconds.

Fifty-eight yards.

It was the New Orleans Saints' first game of the 2019 season against the Houston Texans on "Monday Night Football," and with two ticks left on the clock, Wil Lutz had to make the longest field goal of his career to win the game.

By every metric, Lutz is one of the best kickers in the NFL. He makes nearly 90 percent of his field goal attempts and owns the Saints' franchise record for kicking 26 in a row. Not only is he accurate, he's got range — Lutz has missed only three kicks of more than 50 yards in the past two seasons.

But one of those was at the end of the first half of that Monday Night game when his 56-yard try sailed wide to the left.

"We talked at halftime, and I told him, 'You'll get another shot,'" says Thomas Morstead, the Saints punter and the holder for Lutz's field goal and extra point attempts.

Lutz did, and there was no doubt from the moment his right foot walloped the ball that his kick was good. Even before it cruised through the uprights, Morstead spun around and rushed his kicker, teammate and friend. The Mercedes-Benz Superdome erupted as the Saints poured onto the field and swarmed him.

"We knew going onto the field that he was going to make that kick," Morstead says. "We just knew."

That was how Wil Lutz, a former walk-on player at Georgia State who went undrafted in the NFL, began his first Pro-Bowl season.

Read the full story in GSU Magazine.