Sunday's Week 12 NFL slate saw a few costly missed field goal attempts, including one missed by Houston Texans kicker Ka'imi Fairbairn in the team's 32–27 loss to the Tennessee Titans.

Before missing his potential game-winning kick against Arizona State, Texas kicker Bert Auburn appeared to get distracted by ...

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The NFL place-kicker might be the loneliest athlete in all of sports, especially after missing a an important field goal. And of course, some field goals are more important than others.

Fortunately, they had set up their kicker — the second-most accurate in NFL history — for a 50-yard field goal to tie the game. Except he missed for the second straight time, keeping ...

It’s the way the kick ended up even happening that has people buzzing, though. Dicker’s field goal was actually a fair-catch field goal, the first of its kind to happen in an NFL game in ...

Here's how the NFL describes the rule: "After a fair catch, the receiving team has the option to put the ball in play by a snap or a fair-catch kick (field goal attempt), with fair-catch kick ...

Kicking in the NFL has changed. But some framework around these changes, while grounded in accuracy, has sorta doinked. Consider individual field goal attempts, league-wide, from 30 to 39 yards in ...

The receiving time can opt for a free kick field goal attempt — in which the defense must line up further back, akin to a kick-off — or an untimed snap from scrimmage. In this case ...

His job as an NFL kicker might seem obvious at this particular moment: He has to boot the football far enough and straight enough to make a 48-yard field goal. But it isn’t quite that simple.