Max Duffy living through Luke Fortner

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Luke Fortner, right, is Max Duffy's former roommate and has a lot of good stories about the former UK star punter. (Photo by Vicky Graff)

Luke Fortner hopes he soon will hear his name called in the NFL Draft. His former UK teammate/roommate, punter Max Duffy, was recently drafted by the Pittsburgh Maulers of the United States Football League (USFL) and hopes that will help get him to the NFL.

Duffy, who won the Ray Guy Award as the nation’s best punter at UK, and Fortner often poke fun at each other on social media and Duffy did that when Fortner went to the NFL Combine.

“Duffy is living through me. I am his gateway into the football word. He is big-time jealous. He takes it out on me on Twitter,” Fortner joked.

So what would be one of Fortner’s favorite stories about Duffy, a former Australian rules football player who was working as a tree lopper before starting his football career.

“The Ray Guy Award is very prestigious,” Fortner said. “He didn’t ship it back home (to Australia). He is almost grown up, so he was not shipping his award to his parents. He just kept the trophy on our floor in the living room of our apartment. We had this massive, beautiful trophy just sitting in the corner of the room on the floor because he had nowhere to put it. He threw a blanket and stuff on it.”

Duffy eventually moved to live with current UK offensive lineman Eli Cox and took the award with him.

“But it is in the same spot. It’s just there in the corner of the room,” Fortner said. “You’ll have to get him to explain the whole thing. It makes no sense.”

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