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Placekickers

Accuracy on long field goals keeps rising

I am surprised how good kickers have gotten at field goals over the years. They keep getting better and better. And impossibly great as they were a few years ago, they’re even better now.

Even the long kicks seem pretty routine nowadays. The league average on field goals over 50 yards is now over 60 percent.

Over the last three years, 20 kickers have attempted at least 10 field goals form 50-plus yards. Only three of those kickers have converted fewer than half of them.

50-YARD KICKS (2012-14)
PlayerFGFGAPct
Blair Walsh1724.708
Phil Dawson1722.773
Justin Tucker1420.700
Dan Bailey1419.737
Matt Bryant1419.737
Greg Zuerlein1322.591
Sebastian Janikowski1221.571
Dan Carpenter1219.632
Matt Prater1216.750
Mason Crosby1123.478
Adam Vinatieri1116.688
Nick Folk913.692
Josh Scobee813.615
Graham Gano811.727
Stephen Gostkowski89.889
Connor Barth710.700
Nick Novak710.700
Caleb Sturgis613.462
Steven Hauschka611.545
Josh Brown68.750
Shayne Graham511.455
Randy Bullock510.500
David Akers59.556
Ryan Succop58.625
Rian Lindell58.625
Robbie Gould57.714
Jay Feely57.714
Patrick Murray56.833
Mike Nugent49.444
Garrett Hartley45.800
Cody Parkey44###
Billy Cundiff39.333
Rob Bironas35.600
Shaun Suisham26.333
Alex Henery26.333
Kai Forbath24.500
Chandler Catanzaro23.667
Jason Hanson23.667
Lawrence Tynes13.333
Cairo Santos12.500
Brandon McManus02.000
John Potter01.000
Justin Medlock01.000
Total282448.629

—Ian Allan

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