A head coach (or one in his right mind anyway) is never going to force his own choice of a kicker on his special teams coach.
If they chose a kicker, that is going to be the one the STs coach favors.
That's regardless of what we think or feel about the choice.
This is from Bonamego's input. You can probably just count on that.
And, a little secret about drafting. Famously--and now and then you see this get talked about--as the draft gets into later rounds, coaches lobby for a guy they want. You don't DRAFT a kicker without Bonamego's input either. And coaches tend to get identified with their own low-round picks, and to back them. Zuerlein for example was Fassel's pick, we knew that.
So for better or worse, odds are Bonamego apparently sees Sloman as his guy.
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