Bucs' Aguayo shakes off missed kicks with solid performance

Rookie kicker Roberto Aguayo gave himself some breathing room on Friday.

After the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' second-round selection missed two kicks over the first two weeks of the preseason, he rebounded with a solid 3-for-3 performance that included a 48-yard field goal. Aguayo also nailed all three of his extra-point attempts.

The Florida State product was feeling the pressure this week, as he continued to miss kicks in practice and admitted he would seek help from former kickers and a "mental coach."

Aguayo was booed in practice on Tuesday and ultimately head coach Dirk Koetter admitted his prized rookie's problems were all in his head.

"I think (the struggles are mental) and I think he believes that," Koetter said this week. "We've talked to him. He knows what he has to do."

The difficulty Aguayo experienced is being directly linked to the pressure of being drafted in the second round after the Bucs moved up to get him, something that rarely happens for a kicker.

But the 59th player drafted in 2016 was the best kicker in college football by far, nailing 88.5 percent of kicks in two seasons, and should work out the early kinks and get back to his accurate form.