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NFL Kickers Struggled Last Season
Tommy Redington ('16) looks into the struggles of NFL kickers this season.
by Tommy Redington
Class of 2016
In the past decades of football, the extra point has been the most converted play in the game, allowing for an extra point to be added to the six point score virtually every time an offense scored a touchdown. Two football seasons ago before the alteration of this play, on average, NFL kickers made “over 99 percent” of extra point attempts, delineating the ease of this kick (Sherman). However, last football season, the 2015-2016 season, the extra point was moved back, changing the 19 yard attempt, into a 32 yard attempted kick. Although this distance change does facilitate more concentration for the kicker, the movement of the extra point in no way should have any impact on other field goals attempted by these kickers.
