rewrite this title Jaguars’ Cam Little makes 70-yard field goal that will soon be forgotten

In a regular-season game, it would have topped the NFL record (66 yards by Justin Tucker) by four yards. 

Tucker’s kick not only needed the assistance of bouncing off the crossbar to get through, but he also kicked it on turf and in a dome with perfect weather conditions. 

Little made this kick on grass and outdoors with all of the weather elements.  

Even though it does not count in the record books, this is still a noteworthy kick for two reasons.

For one, it gives the Jaguars’ coaching staff the confidence to know that Little has a powerful leg and is capable of hitting kicks from anywhere on the field. 

It also shows just how good kicking in the NFL has become in recent years. It used to be that anything over 40 yards was a 50-50 bet, kicks over 50 were almost unheard of, and nobody would even consider anything over 60 yards.

We are now at the point where anything under 50 is expected to be made, 50-yarders should be better than 50-50 bets, and we seemingly get multiple 60-yarders per season. 

Now the NFL has a guy who knows he can hit from 70 yards. 

Little was Jacksonville’s sixth-round pick in the 2024 NFL Draft and was 27-for-29 on field goal attempts as a rookie, with a long of 59 yards. He easily topped that on Saturday.