Zoltán was just passing through toddlerhood at the time of the revolution so he does not remember much of the details,[4] but the family stuffed windows with pillows during the conflict.

[7][8] At the age of twelve, he immigrated with his family to Ohio and Meskó was introduced to American football when he was spotted as a potential kicker in eighth grade gym class when he knocked out a light during a kickball game.

[12] In 2003, Meskó earned Northeast Ohio Inland All-District Division II football team honorable mention recognition from the media while performing as a punter and placekicker for Twinsburg High School.

[13] He was also selected as Western Reserve North Division First-team by the coaches as well as the All-Summit County Team kicker.

[6] Twinsburg qualified for the state playoffs for the first time in ten years thanks in part to a solid kicking game.

[9] After his junior season, he compiled tapes of his best punts, field goals, and kickoffs and sent them to 86 schools, hoping for ten responses.

[18] Meskó had a successful high school career and was ranked second among kickers in the 2005 recruiting class by Rivals.com and fourth among punters by Scout.com.

[32][33] The Akron area coaches selected him as both the punter and kicker for the All-Western Reserve Conference, North Division first-team.

[12] Sources: Prior to the 2005 season, it appeared that the Michigan Wolverines would use three kickers: Garrett Rivas for field goals and extra points, Ross Ryan for kickoffs and Meskó for punting,[37] but redshirt junior Ryan beat out Meskó and junior Mark Spencer for the punting duties.

[38] Meskó redshirted as a freshman at Michigan in 2005, while Ryan ranked last in the Big Ten for the 2005 season with a 38.3 yard average.

[42][43][44][45] In the fifth game of the season, against the Minnesota Golden Gophers for the Little Brown Jug, Meskó handled all of the punting duties.

[50] Prior to the 2007 season, Meskó adjusted his kicking technique to a straight motion instead of a cross-over like National Football League punters.

[52] After Rivas graduated, the 2007 Michigan Wolverines football team had a battle for the placekicking duties for the 2007 season between redshirt freshman Bryan Wright and two walk-ons.

[53] When the team had two fourth quarter field goal attempts blocked during their season-opening 34–32 loss to the two-time defending FCS champion Appalachian State Mountaineers, Meskó was an uninvolved third stringer but handled punting duties.

[56] When Rich Rodriguez arrived to replace the retired Carr prior to the 2008 season, he announced the Wolverines would be using a new punting formation along with the spread offense.

[60] In Michigan's third game against Notre Dame on 13 September, Meskó executed an option run for 13 yards and a first down.

[61][62] Meskó also executed a seven-yard option run for a first down against Minnesota on 8 November in the Little Brown Jug game.

[63] Meskó had a couple of punts blocked during the season,[64][65] and one was returned for a touchdown during the Michigan – Ohio State game.

[78][79] On 11 October 2009, he was named Big Ten Conference special teams player of the week for averaging 53.8 yards on five punts at Iowa.

[104] At the close of his collegiate career, Meskó was rated the number one punter prospect for the 2010 NFL draft by Scouts.com.

[111] In Week 6 of his rookie season, Meskó set a season-long record with a 65-yard punt in overtime that gave the Baltimore Ravens the ball at their own 19-yard line.

The Ravens failed to gain a first down and punted back to the Patriots, who scored to win the game on the ensuing drive.

[112] The 2010 Patriots were the seventh-highest scoring team in NFL history; as a result, Meskó punted just 58 times, 26th in the league.

[113][114] During the 2011 NFL lockout, Meskó, a finance and marketing major in college, interned as a private equity analyst with Graham Partners in Philadelphia.

[117] Bleacher Report stated that the reason for the cut was that if Meskó had stayed for his fourth year, he would have made $1.3 million, while Allen would only cost $405,000.

[121] Meskó's punting had been statistically poor and he had some troubles on specific plays that upset Steelers coach Mike Tomlin.

[113] On 8 May 1997,[113] when Zoltán was 11, his family moved from his native Romania after Mihály Meskó won a United States Permanent Resident Card (green card) in the Diversity Immigrant Visa lottery for the single child family to move to the United States.

[128] He completed a master's degree in sports management from the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology in April 2010.

[132] After retiring from the NFL, Meskó started Exero Labs with business partner Ben Rizzo, a company that aims to create devices attached to football helmets to make the game safer.

[133] They were featured on the NFL's technology startup competition "1st and Future" the weekend of Super Bowl LII.