Kickers are hitting an unprecedented 73% of field goals 50 yards or longer this year, but that hasn’t stopped a spate of ...

In the NFL, kickers are rarely a team's big star — but this year, they are stealing the show. This season, kickers are hitting nearly 72% of field goal attempts from at least 50 yards out.

Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images There are only 12 kickers who are rostered in at least 50% of ESPN fantasy football leagues right now, and three of them are on bye in Week 12 while another one is ...

You probably know football is mainly about throwing, catching and running the ball, so NFL kickers have never been, shall we say, main characters. But this season, kickers have become essential, and ...

Justin Tucker, Jake Elliott and Evan McPherson — three of the more dependable kickers in the league in recent years — are in slumps that have reached a crisis point. It's a jarring development ...

This is supposed to be a golden age for placekicking in the NFL. Try telling that to the fans in Baltimore, Philadelphia and Cincinnati right now. Justin Tucker, Jake Elliott and Evan McPherson ...

Each week, I'll examine kickers and defenses who could exceed or fail to meet expectations based on their weekly opponent … like Matt Gay and the Lions' defense in Week 11! For your final lineup ...

Why? Because a few of the NFL's top kickers will be unavailable in Week 12. That will require teams to choose whether to roster two kickers or risk dropping the kicker on bye and losing him to ...

Teams that have made it this far without having to switch kickers ought to feel fortunate. “Just looking for a live leg, you know?” New York Jets interim coach Jeff Ulbrich said last week ...

Week 11 provided some rather strange situations in the world of kicking. Most significantly, one of the greatest kickers of all time, Justin Tucker, looked human for the first time in recent memory.