Rubio was himself a long snapper in college at u c l a. Rubio hoped to long snap in the ennefel, but it didn't work out. In between his junior and senior year, i damaged my back pretty darnd. The position is sometimes called upside down quarter back because you have to throw the ball fast and accurately backwards in a perfect spiral.
Adam Smith famously argued that specialization is the key to prosperity. In the N.F.L., the long snapper is proof of that argument. Just in time for the Super Bowl, here’s everything there is to know about a job that didn’t used to exist.