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Jeff Feagles holds the NFL career record for most punts with 1,713. In American football, a punt is a kick that is performed after a player (most often a punter) drops the ball from their hands and kicks it prior to it hitting the ground. Record keeping for punts in the National Football League (NFL) goes back to 1939.
Shane Lechler, who ranks second to Feagles in both total punts and punting yards, is the NFL's all-time leader in yards per punt (47.6). [5] Lechler is also the only punter to lead two different franchises (the Las Vegas Raiders and Houston Texans) in career punting yards. Net yards per punt, or net average, as opposed to a player's gross ...
Longest overtime punt returned for a touchdown: 99 yards, Patrick Peterson, Arizona Cardinals vs. St. Louis Rams November 6, 2011 [294] Most passing yards : 219, Derek Carr , Oakland Raiders vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers on October 30, 2016 [ 295 ]
Lechler holds the NFL record for best average per punt in a career (47.6). [130] He has the five best single-season punting averages in Raiders history, including a career-best 51.1 in 2009, the third-highest single-season average in league history (to Sammy Baugh's 51.4 in 1940 and Ryan Stonehouse's 53.1 in 2022). [131] [132]
The longest punt in NFL/AFL play was a 98-yarder by Steve O'Neal of the New York Jets in an American Football League regular season loss to the Denver Broncos at Mile High Stadium on September 21, 1969. [12] Jeff Feagles is the all-time NFL career punts and punt yards leader with 1,713 punts and 71,211 punt yards over 352 games. [13]
Sammy Baugh was a 5-time league leader in yards per punt, which is still the most in NFL history, with only one other player ever reaching four seasons leading in yards per punt. His record for yards per punt for a season of 51.4 lasted 82 years. In 1963, Yale Lary became the second player to lead the league yards per punt for a third time.
Tom Brady – New England vs. Philadelphia, LII. Most passing yards, quarter, 228 (second) Doug Williams – Washington vs. Denver, XXII. Longest pass, 85 yards (TD) Jake Delhomme (to Muhsin Muhammad) – Carolina vs. New England, XXXVIII. Fewest passing yards by a Super Bowl MVP, 119.
Fewest first downs, single team, game, 0 (zero) New York Giants (vs Green Bay Packers) Oct 1, 1933. Pittsburgh Pirates vs Boston Redskins) Oct 29, 1933. Philadelphia Eagles (vs Detroit Lions) Sep 20, 1935. New York Giants (vs Washington Redskins) Sep 27, 1942. Denver Broncos (vs Houston Oilers) Sep 3, 1966.