In a perfect world, someone else would step in and take at least one of those roles off his shoulders to avoid leg fatigue.

That’s where Kelley could step in.

“It’s different for a kicker (because) he’s not learning a system,” Beamer said. “For an offensive or defensive player coming in, he has the learn the scheme, where to line up, what to do on that particular play. You don’t have any of that at kicker. You’ve got to know where the ball is and get your steps right and kick it.”

The 6-foot-2, 210-pounder was ranked the No. 3 kicker in his class in the On3 Industry Ranking and the No. 11 kicker by Kohl’s Kicking.

“Well, the main thing is, he’s a bigger type of guy,” DeCamillis said this spring. “He’s got power. We thought his technique was at an advanced level, which a lot of these guys, you know, some guys have and some guys don’t — his did. And then he’s just a competitor. He’s in baseball right now. I think he’s batting around .500. So he’s obviously doing some good things there.

“But he is a really, really good athlete. He’s a guy that we think will be able to compete as a punter down the road right now. We’re going to make him a placekicker and kickoff guy and see how that goes. But we’re just hopeful that we can get him up to speed.”

Beamer is confident Kelley can make up enough ground to compete with Love, William Joyce, and Peyton Argent.

“For him, it’s just going to be more the mental aspect of it,” Beamer continued. “Kicking in a high school game and then potentially kicking in front of however many thousand people in game 1 or 80-plus-thousand in Williams-Brice game 2 as well. He’s made of the right stuff, we think. I think he’s got the right mentality to handle that, but you can try to put them in as many situations as you want during the summer time, but until you do it in a game, it’s not real. …”