{"id":207960,"date":"2025-10-12T17:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/207960\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T17:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:29:07","slug":"how-chargers-cameron-dicker-is-most-accurate-kicker-in-nfl-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/207960\/","title":{"rendered":"How Chargers&#8217; Cameron Dicker is most accurate kicker in NFL history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron Dicker doesn&#8217;t miss.<\/p>\n<p>It sometimes takes people by surprise, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/los-angeles-chargers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Chargers<\/a>&#8216; kicker is the most accurate placekicker in NFL history.<\/p>\n<p>Dicker entered Sunday having made 100-of-106 field goals in his NFL career.<\/p>\n<p>Then he made his first attempt against the Dolphins, too, to get to 101 for 107.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s 94.4% for Dicker in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Dicker needed to surpass 100 field goal attempts in his career to officially be on the list. He was already technically the best percentage, but he wasn&#8217;t eligible for the list until reaching that landmark.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Tucker previously held the record at 89.1%.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/denver-broncos\/news\/how-broncos-qb-bo-nix-college-journey-nfl-success\/984dbe2e7dfa06cba17fffb8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How Bo Nix&#8217;s college journey set him up for Broncos success<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dicker could always fall down the list, but for now, he&#8217;s No. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Eddy Pineiro is third on the list, followed by Harrison Butker and Chris Boswell to round out the top five.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a remarkable journey for Dicker, who was cut multiple times to start his NFL career before latching on with the Chargers.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Chargers would likely never get rid of Dicker. He may have another decade-plus of making field goals for them.<\/p>\n<p>And if he keeps this up, he&#8217;ll go down as an absolute all-time great among kickers.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL News:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron Dicker doesn&#8217;t miss. It sometimes takes people by surprise, but the Los Angeles Chargers&#8216; kicker is the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-207960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}