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Record keeping for punting yards in the National Football League (NFL) goes as far back as 1939. To be eligible for career-long rankings, a player must have a minimum of 250 punts. [1] Although he never led the league in punting yards for a single-season, Jeff Feagles' longevity propelled him to become the career punting yards leader, with ...
Marquette King's 4,930 punting yards for the Oakland Raiders in 2014 is the most punting yards a player has had without setting the single-season record. Sammy Baugh led the league in yards per punt five times in his career (1940–1943, 1945). Lechler is the only other player to lead the league in yards per punt four times (2003, 2004, 2007 ...
List of NFL career punting yards leaders This page was last edited on 28 March 2024, at 12:41 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
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]
To be eligible for career-long rankings, a player must have a minimum of 250 punts. [1] After his 22 seasons as an NFL punter, Jeff Feagles retired with 1,713 punts, the NFL's career record. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Feagles is the only punter to eclipse 1,500 career punts; a total of 24 players have reached 1,000 punts during their career.
Stonehouse recorded an average of 53.1 yards per punt throughout his rookie season, which set a new single-season NFL record. [33] The record, previously set in 1940 by Sammy Baugh with a 51.4 average, lasted 82 seasons before being broken by Stonehouse. [3] He was also the punting yards leader in 2022, punting 90 times for 4,779 yards.
In 1985, he punted 67 times for 2,626 yards. [21] After the 1985 season, with the USFL's future in doubt due to a lawsuit against the NFL, Parsons retired from pro football. [3] [22] During the 1975, 1981 and 1982 seasons, Parsons led the NFL in punting attempts, while leading the NFL in punt yards in both 1982 and 1983.
While at Stanford, Bailey had the longest punt in the school's history at 84 yards. In four years he punted 185 times and is the all-time team leader in career punt average with 43.8 yards per kick. Bailey was a three-time All-Pac-12 Conference honoree and two-time Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention. [3]