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The longest field goal kick in NFL history is 66 yards, a record set by Justin Tucker on September 26, 2021, which broke the record previously held by Matt Prater (2013) at 64 yards. The third longest is 63, originally set by Tom Dempsey (1970) and then matched by Jason Elam (1998), Sebastian Janikowski (2011), David Akers (2012), Graham Gano ...
Longest return of a missed field goal: 109 yards, Antonio Cromartie on November 4, 2007, [1]: s-24 [294] Jamal Agnew on September 26, 2021; Most missed field goal returns for touchdowns: 2, Al Nelson 1965–1973, Carl Taseff 1951–1962; Longest return of a blocked field goal: 94 yards, Bobby Smith on October 25, 1964
This walk-off kick eclipsed both Dempsey's and Graham Gano's 63-yarder in 2018 as the longest field goal to win a game on its final play. [ 11 ] [ 14 ] Since Dempsey was the only kicker to make a field goal from more than sixty yards prior to the relocation of the goal posts, he remains the only player in NFL history to successfully kick a ...
Matthew Phillip Prater (born August 10, 1984) is an American professional football placekicker for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). Regarded as one of the best long distance kickers in NFL history, he held the NFL record for longest field goal (64 yards) from 2013 until 2021 [2] and holds the NFL record for most 50+ yard field goals in a career, 81 as of 2024.
The first in-game field goal of Bates' life, [15] it is tied as the second-longest recorded field goal in professional football history. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Coincidentally, the lone longer kick— Justin Tucker 's 66-yard kick for the Baltimore Ravens against the Detroit Lions in 2021 —occurred under nearly identical circumstances and on the ...
His 51-yard field goal in Super Bowl XXXII against the Green Bay Packers was the second longest in Super Bowl history since Steve Christie's 54-yarder for the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVIII as well as the longest in Broncos postseason history. He passed the 500-point plateau with his final extra-point attempt at Seattle, becoming only the ...
It was just four yards short of the all-time NFL record. The record was broken by Tyler Bass with a 61-yard field goal in 2024. In the 1994 Super Bowl, Christie set the record for the longest field goal in Super Bowl history at 54 yards until it was eventually broken by Jake Moody and Harrison Butker in the 2024 Super Bowl.
Ove Claes Johansson (March 31, 1948 – September 30, 2023) was an American football placekicker and the current holder of the record for the longest field goal ever kicked during an American football game, at 69 yards (63 m), for Abilene Christian University in their October 16, 1976 victory over East Texas State. [1]