2025 Trib HSSN football position-by-position breakdown: Scouting the specialists

By: Chris Harlan
Wednesday, August 20, 2025 | 7:57 PM

TribLive HSSN will break down the top players at one position per day until Week Zero. Here is a look at the top kickers and punters for the 2025 season.

1. Harran Zureikat

Fox Chapel

Senior, 6-2, 185

Zureikat is the top kicker in the country and a Georgia commit. He is ranked No. 1 by Kohl’s, which organizes and evaluates prospects at kicking camps. Kohl’s ranks him also as the fourth-best punter in the 2026 class, and Under Armour has invited Zureikat to kick in its national all-star game in January. A first-team all-conference kicker and punter last year, Zureikat converted 5 of 9 field goals with makes from 21, 26, 35, 35 and 45 yards. His longest broke the Fox Chapel record. He showed his strength by sending 24 of 29 kickoffs into the end zone for touchbacks and averaged 35.8 yards per punt with a long of 54. He committed to Georgia in June over offers from Pitt, Penn State, Akron, Boston College, Maryland and Syracuse.

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2. Jacobo Echeverria Lozano

Upper St. Clair

Senior, 5-10, 165

Echeverria is the 10th-ranked senior kicker in the country, according to Kohl’s. He also ranks 82nd among punters. Coaches voted him first-team all-conference at both positions last year. He made 8 of 13 field goals with makes from 21, 22, 28, 30, 32, 43, 45 and 46 yards. He was perfect on 47 extra-point tries and drew touchbacks on 50 of his 71 kickoffs.

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3. Domenic Pratt

Central Valley

Junior, 5-11, 175

Pratt is one of the top junior kickers nationally, ranked eighth overall by Kohl’s in the 2027 class. He made 8 of 9 field-goal attempts last season and earned second-team all-conference honors. He made kicks from 25, 25, 35, 36, 37, 44, 45 and 47 yards and converted 44 of 48 extra-point attempts. On kickoffs, he drew 26 touchbacks.

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4. Rocco Marcantonio

Hopewell

Senior, 5-9, 165

Marcantonio tied the WPIAL record for longest field goal with a 55-yarder in Week 5 last season. He was only the second kicker in league history to make one from that distance. Overall, he was successful on 9 of 13 field-goal tries with makes from 22, 23, 24, 29, 30, 38, 44, 48 and 55. He was voted first-team all-conference last year.

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5. Evan Pfeifer

Norwin

Senior, 6-3, 180

Pfeifer kicked two field goals last season, but it’s his punts that draw the most acclaim. A second-team all- conference punter, Pfeifer is ranked 20th nationally among seniors at that position, according to Kohl’s. He averaged 42.1 yards per punt last year with a season-long of 68. He also converted 17 extra points and has a college offer from Air Force.

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One to watch

Antonio Difatta

Central Catholic

Junior, 5-8, 155

Difatta is another standout on the kicking camp circuit, ranked 11th nationally among junior kickers by Kohl’s. The Vikings graduated all-conference kicker Billy Lech since last season, so that job now belongs to Difatta. As a sophomore, he made three extra points and averaged 43.5 yards on five punts.

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Position breakdowns

QB | RB | WR | TE | OL | DL | DE | LB | CB | S | K

Chris Harlan is a TribLive reporter covering sports. He joined the Trib in 2009 after seven years as a reporter at the Beaver County Times. He can be reached at charlan@triblive.com.

Tags: Central Catholic, Central Valley, Fox Chapel, Hopewell, Norwin, Upper St. Clair