The Jacksonville Jaguars kicker hit a 68-yard field goal to close the first half against the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday, setting a new NFL record in the process. The Raiders took a 6-3 lead into the half.<\/p>\n
Little broke the record formerly held by Justin Tucker (66 yards in 2021). <\/p>\n
It doesn’t come as the biggest surprise that he set the new record\u2014he booted a 70-yard field goal in August during a preseason matchup against the Pittsburgh Steelers. While preseason records don’t count toward the record books, it was still a pretty incredible moment.<\/p>\n
It was also a reminder that Little is more than capable of breaking his own NFL record.<\/p>\n
The 22 year-old was fantastic in his rookie season last year, going 27-for-29 on field-goal attempts and hitting all 27 extra-point tries. He was 8-for-9 on efforts from 40-49 yards and and 5-for-6 from 50 yards and beyond. <\/p>\n
He’s been a bit more inconsistent this year. Coming into Sunday he was 10-for-14 on field goals and 14-for-15 on extra points. <\/p>\n
But against the Raiders, he proved how much of a weapon his foot can be. So long as the Jaguars get the ball to midfield, they have a legitimate shot at three points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville Jaguars kicker hit a 68-yard field goal to close the first half against the Las Vegas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-257984","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\/257984","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=257984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}