David Mikulka is a senior linebacker and long snapper at Layton Christian Academy in Utah, and the second position on that line is worth as much as the first. Long snappers get scholarships. Every college roster has to fill the job, the competition for it is a short list, and a player who can snap and also play linebacker is two roster spots in one. Programs recruit specialists late and off verified film, which makes an accurate profile more valuable at his position than almost any other. As a linebacker his senior season has produced 27 tackles, an interception, a fumble recovery and two pass breakups across eight starts. Taking the ball away twice in eight games from the second level is production that projects. His film backs it: five clips, including a senior games one-through-four reel and three named-opponent cutups — against Preyson and on the road at Pleasant Grove and Maple Mountain. At 6-0 and 227 pounds the build is already college-ready, and the weight room is ahead of it: a 507-pound deadlift, a 374-pound squat, a 264-pound bench and a 225-pound power clean. That lower-body power holds up a snapper's base under a rush. Verified snap times are the highest-value addition left to make.
Senior LB and long snapper: 27 tackles, 507-pound pull, 5 clips
