“I love them a lot, and I miss them,” Archie Wilson said, his voice cracking as he talked about his family back in Melbourne. He’ll turn 19 this Wednesday, but the birthday candles will have to wait; his focus right now is all on fall camp with the Nebraska Cornhuskers. The kid has travelled more than 9,000 miles from Australia to Lincoln, leaving behind his parents and two little brothers, trading backyard barbecues for Big Ten football dreams. It’s the kind of leap that takes guts, especially for someone who’s never even played an American football game before.

Wilson isn’t just some random international pickup, either. A product of Haileybury College and ProKick Australia, a program that has sent punters to Alabama, Georgia, and LSU, he’s already showing why Nebraska’s coaching staff

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