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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 ...
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.
List of NFL career punting yards leaders Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title NFL punting yards leaders .
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]
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. With 34,180 career punting yards, he ranks 45th all-time in NFL history, and 53rd all-time with most punts blocked with five.
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.
Records may also refer to longest NFL streaks: List of most consecutive games with touchdown passes in the NFL List of most consecutive starts and games played by NFL players
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