Jacksonville Jaguars kicker Cam Little delivered what would have been a record-setting play on Saturday evening if he had carried out it in a regular-season recreation. However as a result of it occurred in a preseason recreation, it is not going to formally go within the document books, and it’ll most likely be forgotten by the top of the weekend.
It doesn’t make the play any much less spectacular.
Simply earlier than halftime of their recreation in opposition to the Pittsburgh Steelers, Little drilled a 70-yard subject purpose that cleared the uprights with loads of room to spare.
In a regular-season recreation, it might 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, however he additionally kicked it on turf and in a dome with good climate circumstances.
Little made this kick on grass and outdoor with all the climate components.
Regardless that it doesn’t depend within the document books, that is nonetheless a noteworthy kick for 2 causes.
For one, it provides the Jaguars’ teaching employees the arrogance to know that Little has a robust leg and is able to hitting kicks from anyplace on the sector.
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 unprecedented, and no one would even think about something over 60 yards.
We are actually on the level the place something below 50 is predicted to be made, 50-yarders ought 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 decide within the 2024 NFL Draft and was 27-for-29 on subject purpose makes an attempt as a rookie, with an extended of 59 yards. He simply topped that on Saturday.
