Jacksonville Jaguars kicker Cam Little delivered what would have been a record-setting play on Saturday evening if he had performed it in a regular-season sport. However as a result of it occurred in a preseason sport, it won’t formally go within the document books, and it’ll in all probability be forgotten by the top of the weekend.
It doesn’t make the play any much less spectacular.
Simply earlier than halftime of their sport in opposition to the Pittsburgh Steelers, Little drilled a 70-yard discipline objective that cleared the uprights with loads of room to spare.
In a regular-season sport, it will have topped the NFL document (66 yards by Justin Tucker) by 4 yards.
Tucker’s kick not solely wanted the help of bouncing off the crossbar to get by means of, however he additionally kicked it on turf and in a dome with excellent climate circumstances.
Little made this kick on grass and outdoor with the entire climate components.
Although it doesn’t rely within the document books, that is nonetheless a noteworthy kick for 2 causes.
For one, it offers the Jaguars’ teaching employees the arrogance to know that Little has a strong leg and is able to hitting kicks from anyplace on the sphere.
It additionally reveals simply how good kicking within the NFL has grow to be in recent times. It was that something over 40 yards was a 50-50 guess, kicks over 50 had been nearly extraordinary, and no person would even think about something over 60 yards.
We are actually on the level the place something underneath 50 is predicted to be made, 50-yarders needs to be higher than 50-50 bets, and we seemingly get a number of 60-yarders per season.
Now the NFL has a man who is aware of he can hit from 70 yards.
Little was Jacksonville’s sixth-round choose within the 2024 NFL Draft and was 27-for-29 on discipline objective makes an attempt as a rookie, with a protracted of 59 yards. He simply topped that on Saturday.
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