Social media had much to say about a viral video of Ryan Oliver taking a bone-crunching hit in the St. Francis Red Flash-Lehigh Mountain Hawks season opener back in 2019.
The play happened six years ago, but it recently resurfaced on X/Twitter, days before the St. Francis Red Flash kick off their 2025 campaign against the UL Monroe Warhawks on Thursday.
It’s rare for football punters to be on the receiving end of a crushing hit. There is the odd case of them having to deliver their own linebacker-style hit on kick and punt returners, as Pat McAfee did for the Indianapolis Colts in a 2013 game against the Denver Broncos:
But in said 2019 game between the St. Francis Red Flash and Lehigh Mountain Hawks, Ryan Oliver got more than he bargained for when he got blown up by Davis Maxie after t