Jacksonville Jaguars kicker Cam Little delivered what would have been a record-setting play on Saturday night time if he had finished it in a regular-season sport. However as a result of it occurred in a preseason sport, 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 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 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 excellent climate situations.
Little made this kick on grass and open air with all the climate parts.
Though it doesn’t rely within the document books, that is nonetheless a noteworthy kick for 2 causes.
For one, it provides the Jaguars’ teaching employees the boldness to know that Little has a robust leg and is able to hitting kicks from wherever on the sphere.
It additionally exhibits simply how good kicking within the NFL has develop into lately. It was that something over 40 yards was a 50-50 guess, kicks over 50 have been virtually unprecedented, and no one would even contemplate something over 60 yards.
We at the moment are on the level the place something beneath 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 decide within the 2024 NFL Draft and was 27-for-29 on discipline objective makes an attempt as a rookie, with an extended of 59 yards. He simply topped that on Saturday.
