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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 ...
Oldest player to record first rushing touchdown: Butch Songin, 36 years, 158 days (AFL); Bobby Hebert, 36 years, 62 days (NFL) Oldest player to record first rushing attempt: Charles Woodson, 39 years, 78 days; Oldest player to record first rushing yard: Jeff Gossett, 39 years, 304 days; Oldest player to score first point: Bill Irgens, 39 ...
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 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.
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.
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.
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).