Jaguars kicker nails 70-yard field goal, but exhibition kick won't count as NFL record

Standing half a football field away and with more than a dozen offensive and defensive linemen blocking his view, Cam Little couldn’t see the ball clear the crossbar.

But when his Jacksonville Jaguars teammates started screaming and scrambling, Little knew the outcome: a 70-yard field goal that he initially thought set an NFL record.

He later learned it wouldn’t count because it happened in a preseason game, a 31-25 loss to Pittsburgh on Saturday night.

“It does (stink),” he said. “That means we just have to go out there and make it again.”

Little nailed a 70-yarder to end the first half, a kick that would have broken the NFL record had it happened during the regular season.

Baltimore’s Justin Tucker holds the NFL mark, having made a 66-yarder at Detroit in 2021. Eight kickers have attempted 70-yarders in the regular season, and all of them failed.

Little’s appeared as though it would have been good from nearly 75 yards; it cleared the bar by enough that the ball boy caught it cleanly.

A sixth-round draft pick from Arkansas in 2024, Little made 27 of 29 field-goal attempts as a rookie and all 27 extra points.



(AP Photo Phelan Ebanhack)