🔒Last month he was an engineer. Now Matthew Wright is a Jaguars hero

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Jacksonville Jaguars kicker Matthew Wright (15), 2nd right, kicks a tract extremity during the 2nd fractional of an NFL shot crippled betwixt the Miami Dolphins and the Jacksonville Jaguars astatine the Tottenham Hotspur stadium successful London, England, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Dunhan)

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A marque caller look to the Jacksonville Jaguars is present their leader aft helping to springiness the squad its archetypal triumph successful 399 days connected Sunday against the Miami Dolphins.

The kicker is usually not the prima of the show, but rookie Matthew Wright, who said he’s mostly quiet, spoke loudly with his ft connected Sunday, making 2 clutch tract goals, including a 53-yard footwear to extremity the crippled and bring to a adjacent the Jaguars 20-game losing streak.

“He was telling maine helium was similar a bundle technologist similar a period and a fractional ago,” Jaguars backmost Trevor Lawrence said aft the game. “Just crazy, you can’t adjacent marque it up.”

And that appears to beryllium accurate.

A look astatine Wright’s LinkedIn leafage shows that up until past period helium was a “Systems Engineer Associate” astatine Lockheed Martin. According to Sporting News, Wright earned his grade successful aerospace engineering astatine the University of Central Florida, wherever helium acceptable records arsenic the shot team’s kicker.

In betwixt stints astatine Lockheed Martin, Wright made appearances for the Steelers and Lions successful the past 2 seasons earlier yet landing with the Jaguars successful October.

Before helium signed with the Jaguars, Wright was posting kicking videos connected his Twitter leafage successful an effort to get NFL teams to notice.

Then the Jaguars came calling.

Wright, 25, said Lockheed Martin has been supportive of his shot vocation and is holding his presumption for him conscionable successful lawsuit his NFL dreams don’t enactment out.

That doesn’t look similar it volition hap anytime soon pursuing Wright’s caller heroics aft taking the starting occupation from Jaguars kicker Josh Lambo, who is dealing with assurance issues but remains connected the roster.

Jacksonville Jaguars kicker Matthew Wright (15), center, celebrates aft kicking a tract extremity to triumph the lucifer during the 2nd fractional of an NFL shot crippled betwixt the Miami Dolphins and the Jacksonville Jaguars astatine the Tottenham Hotspur stadium successful London, England, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Dunhan) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Now section relatives of Wright person been celebrating his occurrence connected Facebook.

“That footwear was amazingly cleanable and to spot your squad truthful excited was adjacent much astonishing to watch! So arrogant of you!” his aunt wrote.

News4Jax Sports Producer Justin Barney said teammates are starting to announcement and helium whitethorn beryllium surviving up to his “Matty Ice” nickname.

“A batch of the guys yesterday said it was the archetypal clip they’d heard him talk audibly yesterday aft the game. First clip trying to get his footing successful Jacksonville,” Barney said.

Barney said it isn’t the archetypal clip a subordinate has travel from a antithetic tract onto the gridiron. Special teams subordinate Jayden Mickens was sleeping successful his car earlier being picked up successful 2017.