{"id":58159,"date":"2025-08-10T01:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T01:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58159\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T01:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T01:51:07","slug":"why-cam-littles-70-yard-field-goal-wont-break-the-nfl-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58159\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Cam Little&#8217;s 70-yard field goal won&#8217;t break the NFL record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/jaguars-kicker-just-made-longest-004834420.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jacksonville Jaguars kicker Cam Little drilled the NFL&#039;s first 70-yard field goal;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacksonville Jaguars kicker Cam Little drilled the NFL&#8217;s first 70-yard field goal<\/a> on Saturday night, but it will not count for the official NFL record.<\/p>\n<p>How could this be?! Well, Little drilled his 70-yard field goal in a home preseason game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/pittsburgh-steelers\/356\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pittsburgh Steelers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a>. Since the field goal wasn&#8217;t made in a regular season game, it will not break the overall record.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/5-longest-nfl-field-goals-013440906.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Former Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker holds the league&#039;s official record;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Former Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker holds the league&#8217;s official record<\/a> for his 66-yard field goal from the 2021 regular season. Little&#8217;s kick clears that by multiple yards, but it wasn&#8217;t in an official NFL game.<\/p>\n<p>Preseason games don&#8217;t count for NFL records for some reason, so Little will have to hold the unofficial title instead of the official one. However, that doesn&#8217;t take away from his incredible achievement.<\/p>\n<p>Who is Cam Little?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/meet-cam-little-jaguars-kicker-010158507.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Little is a former sixth-round pick out of Arkansas;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Little is a former sixth-round pick out of Arkansas<\/a> who kicked for Jacksonville as a rookie last year.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on For The Win: <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/2025\/08\/09\/why-cam-little-70-yard-field-goal-not-nfl-record\/85595511007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Why Cam Little&#039;s 70-yard field goal won&#039;t break the NFL record;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Why Cam Little&#8217;s 70-yard field goal won&#8217;t break the NFL record<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Jaguars kicker Cam Little drilled the NFL&#8217;s first 70-yard field goal on Saturday night, but it will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[1742,49,38388,48,38387,1725,32695,514,38386,949,26080,82],"class_list":["post-58159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-ca","tag-cam-little","tag-canada","tag-field-goal","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-justin-tucker","tag-nfl","tag-official-record","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-regular-season-game","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58159","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=58159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}