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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 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Longest punt return: ... Bobby Hebert, 36 years, 62 days (NFL) Oldest player to record first rushing attempt: Charles Woodson ...
On October 23, 1994, Bailey made the longest punt return in NFL history when he ran 103 yards for a touchdown in a game against the New Orleans Saints. [4] What makes this return stand out is that every single player on the field assumed the ball was going to bounce through the end zone after the punt.
He had an 89-yard punt return for a touchdown, the longest in the NFL that season, that set the record for punt returns for a touchdown (since surpassed). Despite his late start, he finished in the top 10 for punt returns, punt return yards and 2nd for punt return touchdowns. He did not return to the Redskins in 2002.
Kansas City Chiefs special-teams ace Tommy Townsend punted a ball 80 yards against the New York Jets. But don’t look for it in the record books.
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.
On December 12, 2021, Grant broke the Bears' franchise record for longest punt return for a touchdown by scoring on a 97-yard punt return in a game against the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The return is the tenth longest punt returned for a touchdown in NFL history. [2]