In terms of both distance and accuracy field goal kickers (during the regular season) were the best that they have ever been in 2025.
The last season where a FG from shorter than 20 yards was missed was 2002, so I don’t even bother putting that on the chart. I debated removing FGs from 20-29 yards since they are hit at 95+% and have been since the early years of this century. This season FGs of 40-49 were hit at a historically high rate of 84%. The previous high was 2013 – 83%. There were zero 60
yard FG attempts in 2002 and there were zero successful 60 yard attempts in 2014. The high mark for 60 yard FG accuracy was in 2023 when 56% were successful, but this season there were a record 22 60 yard attempts with 54.5% successful (12/22).
Cam Little of the Jaguars set and then reset the NFL FG distance record with makes from 67 and 68.
Over the last 6 NFL regular seasons, there have been 78 attempts from 60 or longer. In the previous 20 seasons there were only 84 total. The 12 successful 60 yard attempts in 2025 smashes the previous record of 6 set way back in 2022 (lol).
The NFL is a league of imitation, and once a player or team has success doing something, others will mimic that success. Cam Little might seem like a freak of nature right now, but it won’t be long before every place kicker coming out of college will be emulating. 60 and maybe even 70 yard FG attempts could be commonplace in the next decade in the NFL. Keep in mind that a 70 yard attempt is from the team’s own 43 yard line. With teams getting the ball at their own 35 after a touchback, a team could theoretically go three and out after a touchback (gaining 8 yards) and then kick a FG. There have been 8 attempts from 70 or longer in NFL history with the longest being from 76 by Sebastian Janikowski in 2008. Also keep in mind that Little had from 70 in preseason.
Another thing of note, with the touchback on kickoff coming out to the 35, teams avoided touchbacks on kickoffs this season. The TB rate on kickoffs was 64% in 2023 and 2024, and it dropped to 21% in 2025. There were only 920 KOs returned in 2024 and that more than doubled in 2025 to 2076. Despite that, only 6 KOs were returned for TDs in 2025. There were 7 in 2024, despite less than half the number of KO returns.
