List of most accurate kickers in NFL history
This article contains a full list of the 20 most accurate kickers in NFL history with at least 100 field goal attempts. Cameron Dicker has the most accurate field goal percentage (FG%) in the National Football League, hitting successful field goals 93.4% of the time during official games.[1] Current stats are updated from Pro Football Reference (PFR) NFL field goal % career leaders.[2]
On September 15, 2025, Dicker kicked his 100th career field goal attempt (successfully scoring his 94th career field goal) against the Las Vegas Raiders, officially making him the most accurate kicker in NFL history.[3]
Evolution in accuracy
Field goal accuracy in the NFL has steadily improved over time.[4] At the beginning of the league's start in the 1920s, to the first Super Bowls in the 1960s, kickers' accuracy was between 40 and 55%. In the 1970s and 1980s, leading kickers typically converted around 70–75% of attempts. By the late 1990s through the 2000s, kickers' accuracy increased to around 80–85%. From the 2010s to 2020s, many of the league's most accurate kickers regularly hit the high 80% with some exceeding 90%.[5]
| 20–25 yds | 25–30 yds | 30–35 yds | 35–40 yds | 40–45 yds | 45–50 yds | 50–55 yds | 55–60 yds | 60+ yds | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999–2003 | 97% | 93% | 85% | 80% | 71% | 60% | 56% | 24% | 0% |
| 2004–2008 | 99% | 93% | 88% | 85% | 77% | 68% | 57% | 41% | 13% |
| 2009–2013 | 97% | 96% | 91% | 85% | 79% | 75% | 64% | 47% | 26% |
| 2014–2018 | 99% | 96% | 94% | 89% | 84% | 73% | 67% | 58% | 23% |
| 2019–2023 | 99% | 97% | 95% | 91% | 82% | 74% | 71% | 57% | 36% |
| 2024–2025 | 99% | 95% | 97% | 90% | 81% | 69% | 76% | 64% | 27% |
A 2015 article in FiveThirtyEight entitled "Kickers are Forever" found that kicker accuracy has increased over time, and there is a nearly perfect correlation between year and accuracy.[7]
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See also
References
- ^ a b "Cameron Dicker becomes most accurate field goal kicker in NFL history (min. 100 attempts)". NFL.com. Retrieved 2025-09-16.
- ^ "NFL Field Goal % Career Leaders (since 1938)". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2025-09-20.
- ^ By; Smith, Michael David; By; Smith, Michael David (2025-09-16). "Cameron Dicker has made an NFL all-time best 94.1 percent of his field goal attempts". NBC Sports. Retrieved 2025-09-16.
- ^ "NFL kickers are better than ever from long distance, and that's changing football". opb. Retrieved 2025-09-16.
- ^ "Why we are living in the golden age of NFL kicking". ESPN.com. 2024-10-30. Retrieved 2025-09-16.
- ^ McLaughlin, Conor (2025-01-05). "Visualizing NFL Kicker Accuracy Trends (1999-2024)". Conor Mclaughlin. Retrieved 2025-09-16.
- ^ Morris, Benjamin (2015-01-28). "Kickers Are Forever". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved 2025-05-07.