Will We See the First 70-Yard NFL Field Goal This Season? +200 on the Moneyline

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Little from 68 yards

It was only a matter of time. The signs were already there.

In a pre-season game, on August 9, 2025, Jacksonville Jaguars’ kicker, Cam Little, smacked a field goal over the posts from 70 yards. It didn’t count as a record as it was not part of either the regular season or playoffs, but in Week 9 in Las Vegas, Little finally kicked himself into the record books.  

broke the previous record of 66 yards

It wasn’t 70 yards, it was 68, but his kick in the Jaguars’ 30-29 overtime win over the Las Vegas Raiders went far enough for him to go down in NFL history. It broke the previous record of 66 yards, set by former Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker in a game against the Detroit Lions on September 26, 2021.

Tucker’s kick at Ford Field limped over, hitting the crossbar on its way over, but was still enough to beat the previous 64-yard record, then held by Matt Prater of the Denver Broncos and set in 2013.

Little’s kick didn’t limp over. Instead, it flew over with yards to spare and bounced off the wall behind the end zone. He is now listed at just +400 to hit the 70-yard mark this season, with only +200 on offer for it to be achieved by any kicker.

The hero/zero life of a kicker

It’s one thing to kick ginormous field goals in practice and in pre-season games; it’s another to do it in the white heat of NFL battle. But Little, a second-year kicker out of Arkansas, responded magnificently to the pressure last Sunday, with head coach Liam Coen citing the kick as the inspiration behind his team’s win.  

But the precarious hero/zero nature of place-kicking couldn’t have been demonstrated better, as, less than a minute before Little’s kick, Raiders kicker Daniel Carlson missed a field goal (PAT) wide right.

Little’s recent form hadn’t been good either, missing three kicks in the Jaguars’ previous two games – two field goal attempts, both of 50-plus yards, as well as a PAT. But the planets aligned perfectly in Vegas, with the game being played on natural turf, and the Allegiant Stadium being an indoor arena, one that’s perfect for place kicking.

Most field goals in a single season

The Jaguars’ kicker played down his record-breaking achievement:

“You kick it long enough and you kick it straight enough, it’s going to go in… me and (holder) Logan (Cooke) kind of had a one-on-one right before the kick, and I said, ‘I’m going to hit this ball as hard as I can.’ Usually, when I tell myself that, I find success. So went out there and just let it loose.”

previous record of five was achieved in 2022 and 2023

And it’s been coming, and not just from the cleats of Little. There have already been seven field goals of 60 yards or more this season, the most in a single season in NFL history. The previous record of five was achieved in 2022 and 2023.

Little continued: “There’s so many good kickers around this league. There’s so many guys that are very, very capable of hitting that kick, and just all comes a matter of when you get the opportunity, seizing it. So I don’t doubt that someone will probably break that record at some point.”

Why the long-distance boom?

In conversation with ESPN, John Carney, a Super Bowl-winning kicker with the New Orleans Saints who now runs Carney Coaching, explained that part of this boom is down to 21st-century technology.

“We have this little guy,” he said, brandishing his iPhone. “Maybe their (the kicker’s) contact is off. Maybe their swing path is off. They can troubleshoot very quickly. In the past, very rarely did I have anyone available to record me. And if I did, it was a camcorder, VHS.

“And there’s more quality coaching available now than there was in the past. More former players and special teams coaches from the NFL have made themselves available to coach punting and kicking at the high school and college levels.”

To précis Carney, there is much more available to kickers nowadays compared to 20+ years ago, when, in training camps, they were pretty much left to train under their own steam, which amounted to little more than launching kick after kick over the posts.

More confidence from coaches

As a result of today’s kickers benefiting from that new tech and those advanced training methods, the quality and success percentage of kicking have risen, and, therefore, there’s a greater willingness from the coaches to turn to their kickers. A long-range field goal and three points on the board is a far more palatable option than a punt.

As well as Little, as the record breaker himself admits, there are other kickers in this season’s NFL with the ability to kick long and, arguably, go beyond the 70-yard mark.

In that ‘chasing pack’ is Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ kicker, Chase McLaughlin, who has already kicked from 65 yards this season (vs the Philadelphia Eagles on September 28) and Dallas Cowboys’ Brandon Aubrey, who put one over the posts from 64 yards against the New York Giants on September 14.

Others to clear 60 yards this season are Will Reichard (Minnesota Vikings), Lucas Havrisik (Green Bay Packers), and Chris Boswell (Pittsburgh Steelers).     

Perfect conditions for kickers

Aubrey’s Cowboys play their home games in the AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas, which has a retractable roof that is closed for most NFL games. That, to a kicker, makes a massive difference and makes a mockery of the theory that kickers enjoy the early part of the season when the weather is good and the pitches pristine.

currently 10 NFL stadiums with roofs

To those, like Aubrey, who ply their trade in indoor stadiums, what’s happening in the great outdoors makes not one iota of difference. There are currently 10 NFL stadiums with roofs, some with fixed domes, others with retractable roofs, and it’s in one of those that the 70-yard mark is likely to be achieved.

In addition to the AT&T Stadium, there is the Allegiant Stadium (Las Vegas Raiders), the Caesars Superdome (New Orleans Saints), Ford Field (Detroit Lions), Lucas Oil Stadium (Indianapolis Colts), Mercedes-Benz Stadium (Atlanta Falcons), NRG Stadium (Houston Texans), SoFi Stadium (LA Rams and LA Chargers), State Farm Stadium (Arizona Cardinals), and U.S. Bank Stadium (Minnesota Vikings).

For those looking to wager on a 70-yarder occurring this season, these are the places to keep an eye on, especially when one of the ‘big leg’ kickers is in town.

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