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Washed Up Walkons

Tyler Kluver

Sports, College Football, Ncaa Team, Nfl Draft, Big Ten, Athletes, Hawkeyes, Iowa

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Matt was born in Phoenix AZ but grew up and graduated an Iowa boy, spending his prep years at Dowling Catholic High School. Kluver competed in travel sports as kids against Matt, who happens to be one of Jon Wiz's best friends from Dowling. Kluver and Matt would later play in Shrine Bowl together before heading off to college. Matt was a talented athlete with some interest as a WR but happened into a boom of Punting interest his junior year. This odd skill landed him a scholarship at Arizona State University where he would go on to start for 3 years and play next to college great Zane Gonzalez. Matt was picked up as a free agent after graduating and has now spent 6 seasons in the NFL with 4 teams. We discuss his wild rise to the League, the ins and outs of special teams in the NFL, the contrast between organizations and a whole lot more!If you love the show and want to show support, tell your friends! And, check out our exclusive content at Patreon.com/washedupwalkons where you can find extra podcast episodes, exclusive merchandise, Merch discounts with every tier, private Walkon discord channel access, and more!Find us on social media @washedupwalkonsVisit TheWashedUpWalkons.com for all of our episodes, merchandise, and more!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show guys, really fun episode today. We have Matt Hawk on the show,
0:04.6	Dowling Catholic product, Iowa Boy, now six-year vet in the NFL as a punter.
0:10.3	Really interesting story of how he made his way from West Des Moines to Miami to Buffalo all over the place
0:16.8	and I think you guys will enjoy this one love having guys from the league on always interesting stuff let's have a day let's go Oh, I'm not. Welcome back into the usually the Friendship Podcast now these days but this is more of like a true
0:56.4	wash-up walk-ons. We've got a legitimate athlete here one that recent former guest
1:01.8	Ryan Boyle had very high praise for Matt by the way just just want to put that out there
1:08.1	Yeah, yeah, so you know he was in our class of 2013 coming out of Iowa. He is a fellow dalling Catholic
1:17.8	Maroon of Ryan Boiles and he was the hunter at Arizona State during our time in college.
1:25.6	He now punts in the NFL.
1:27.2	He has been with several different organizations
1:29.7	in the NFL, excited to talk about that.
1:31.4	His name is Matt Hawk and he joins the show today,
1:33.7	Matt. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having. Dude, are you in a gamer chair by the
1:38.8	way? I am, so I have an office.
1:43.2	I just moved out to Arizona not too long.
1:45.0	Yeah, shout out, where'd you move?
1:47.4	Chandler.
1:48.4	No kidding.
1:49.5	Yeah.
1:50.8	So kind of home base. That was kind of hard thinking just sick and moving around everywhere and
1:58.0	obviously went to ASU. Couldn't believe it took me six years to get back here but finally got a home base and still not fully
2:06.7	set up but I'm not going to be when you were going to move back to Arizona
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