Ian Allan
I'm stacking the board right now for the kickers. A lot of parity at this position.
One thing I notice, as I play around with the numbers: There are a lot of good older kickers. If you look at the accuracy statistics for the last three years, in fact, the four best kickers are all guys who are currently at least 39 years old.
I do not think, therefore, that we need to discriminate against guys like Jason Elam and John Kasay simply because they’re getting up there in years. Both of those guys are in my top 10.
The chart below shows the 33 kickers who’ve attemped at least 50 field goals in the last three years. The nine guys on this list who are over 35 years old have averaged 87.1 percent on field goals. The nine guys under 28 have averaged 82.9 percent.
MOST ACCURATE KICKERS, 2007-2009
Age figures represents players’ current ages.
Pct.% Age
91.2% 39 Jason Elam
90.9% 45 John Carney
88.4% 39 John Kasay
88.2% 48 Morten Andersen
88.1% 27 Robbie Gould
87.8% 38 Jason Hanson
87.5% 31 Shayne Graham
87.5% 27 Nate Kaeding
87.2% 32 Jay Feely
86.8% 24 Nick Folk
86.3% 41 Matt Stover
86.2% 36 Joe Nedney
86.0% 31 Rob Bironas
85.6% 32 Rian Lindell
85.6% 25 Stephen Gostkowski
84.3% 34 Ryan Longwell
84.3% 30 Jeff Reed
83.9% 32 Kris Brown
83.2% 30 Josh Brown
82.9% 36 Adam Vinatieri
82.8% 27 Mike Nugent
82.8% 33 Matt Bryant
81.4% 26 Josh Scobee
81.4% 30 Lawrence Tynes
81.2% 37 Jeff Wilkins
81.1% 34 Phil Dawson
79.5% 24 Mason Crosby
78.9% 34 David Akers
78.0% 27 Shaun Suisham
77.9% 32 Neil Rackers
75.0% 35 Olindo Mare
74.7% 31 Sebastian Janikowski
72.4% 26 Dave Rayner
—Ian Allan
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