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Nate Kaeding retires

Nate Kaeding has retired. He's been plagued by injuries in recent years and just picked up another groin injury. He on Tampa Bay's roster.

Kaeding retired as No. 2 on the all-time accuracy chart. Mike Vanderjagt still has the No. 1 spot for now (though with the way kickers are performing nowadays, I expect a half dozen kickers will move ahead of him within a few years).

Kaeding's regular-season accuracy didn't seem to translate into the postseason. He had big misses in a pair of home playoff losses to the Jets - the kind of kicks that wouldn't given him any problem in the regular season.

The Chargers originally picked him up as part of the Eli Manning trade.


ALL-TIME FIELD GOAL ACCURACY
    FG    FGA   Pct

   230   266   86.47%   Mike Vanderjagt
   181   210   86.19%   Nate Kaeding
   214   250   85.60%   Rob Bironas
   208   243   85.60%   Robbie Gould
   245   287   85.37%   Shayne Graham
   233   276   84.42%   Matt Bryant
   101   120   84.17%   Connor Barth
   170   202   84.16%   Stephen Gostkowski
   305   363   84.02%   Phil Dawson
   471   563   83.66%   Matt Stover
   361   434   83.18%   Ryan Longwell
   413   500   82.60%   Adam Vinatieri
   299   362   82.60%   Jay Feely
   478   580   82.41%   John Carney
   495   601   82.36%   Jason Hanson
   213   259   82.24%   Jeff Reed

^aEUR"Ian Allan

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