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The fair catch kick is a rule at the professional and high school levels of American football that allows a team that has just made a fair catch to attempt a free kick [A] from the spot of the catch. The kick must be either a place kick or a drop kick , and if it passes over the crossbar and between the goalposts of the opposing team's goal, a ...
Chargers' Cameron Dicker made a rare fair-catch free-kick field goal from 57 yards out, the longest in NFL history. Only seven free kicks have been successful in the league.
Fair-catch free kick rule. Here's the exact wording of the NFL's rule on fair catches, from Rule 10, Section 2, Article 4: "After a fair catch is made or is awarded as the result of fair catch ...
According to NFL rules, if a player makes a fair catch, his team may attempt an unchallenged kick from the spot rather than begin its next possession. If the kick goes through the goalposts, it's ...
The seldom-used rule allows a team that has just made a fair catch to try a free kick for three points. The kick is attempted from the line of scrimmage, and the defenders all must stand 10 yards away. The play hardly ever happens because teams almost never find themselves in circumstances to make such a kick feasible.
NCAA rules on fair catches are similar to NFL and NFHS rules, except it does not have the fair catch kick option, and a fair catch from a kickoff that is caught between the receiving team's goal line and its 25-yard line is a touchback. The NCAA abolished the fair catch in 1950 but reinstated it in 1951 without the fair catch kick option.
Although the 1848 "Cambridge rules" described by Henry C. Malden in 1897 have not survived, Malden implies that they awarded a free kick for a fair catch. [26] The 1856 Cambridge rules, which do survive, explicitly awarded such a free kick: [27] When a player catches the ball directly from the foot, he may kick it as he can without running with it.
It takes a specific circumstance for an NFL team to try a fair catch free kick. That's why one hadn't been made in almost 50 years. On Thursday night, viewers got a lesson on a little-known rule ...