Lucas Carneiro

2025 (REDSHIRT JUNIOR): Lou Groza Award preseason watch list … Preseason All-America third team (Phil Steele) … Preseason All-SEC first team (Phil Steele) … Preseason All-SEC second team (Media, Athlon) … Preseason All-SEC third team (Coaches) … Transfer who arrived on campus in January and participated in spring drills. WESTERN KENTUCKY: Served as Western Kentucky's primary placekicker in 2023 and 2024 … Connected on field goals at an 87.1 percent clip in his career at WKU … Was a Lou Groza Award semifinalist and first-team All-American in 2024 … Earned 2024 CUSA Special Teams Player of the Year … Finished 2024 season 18-for-19 on field goal attempts and 41-for-41 on PATs … His 94.7 percent field goal percentage was the best mark in a single season at WKU … Was 6-for-6 from 50-plus yards, with two 54-yard makes … Became the only CUSA kicker to go 6-for-6 on 50-plus yard field goals in a season since at least 1996 … Earned honorable mention CUSA All-Conference accolades and to the CUSA All-Freshman team as a redshirt freshman in 2023 … Made 9-of-12 on field goals and was a perfect 47-of-47 on PATs. HIGH SCHOOL: Was a three-year varsity football letterwinner at Community School of Davidson … Earned Player of the Year accolades as both a junior and senior … Also lettered in soccer … Coached by TJ Albert. PERSONAL: Full name is Lucas Booth Carneiro … Born May 25, 2004 … Son of Jackson and Maren Carneiro … Athletic Director's Honor Roll in spring 2025 … General business major.