Good on you, Blake Grupe. The rookie kicker out of Notre Dame hasn’t shied away from the competition posed by his former Pro Bowl teammate Wil Lutz at New Orleans Saints training camp — after ending organized team activities in June with a 59-yard field goal, Grupe picked up where he left off in July by hitting all six of his kicks at Thursday’s practice session, at ranges from 33 to 44 yards out.
That’s per Saints News Network’s Ross Jackson, who noted that Lutz hit the same marks a day earlier. Neither kicker has pulled away from the other through the first two days of practice, which is probably what we should have expected to open camp. But it’s good to see Grupe rising to the occasion.
