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Ray Wersching of the then-San Diego Chargers was the last kicker to make a fair catch free kick, all the way back in 1976. There hadn't even been one attempted since Joey Slye of the Carolina ...
Los Angeles Chargers placekicker Cameron Dicker connected on a 57-yard free-kick field goal on Thursday, in an incredibly rare play that early-to-bed East Coast residents and linear TV watchers ...
The momentum-boosting, fair-catch kick could be the catalyst that gets the Chargers back into the playoffs. The win vaulted Los Angeles to the sixth seed in the AFC, one spot above the Broncos.
The fair catch kick is a rule at the professional and high school levels of American football that allows a team that has just made a fair catch to attempt a free kick [A] from the spot of the catch. The kick must be either a place kick or a drop kick , and if it passes over the crossbar and between the goalposts of the opposing team's goal, a ...
On August 30, 2024, Dicker signed a four-year, $22.04 million contract extension with the Chargers. [35] On December 19, 2024, in a Thursday Night Football game against the Denver Broncos, Dicker kicked a 57-yard fair catch kick, the first successful attempt since 1976, and the longest successful fair catch kick in NFL history. [36]
The 2024 season was the Los Angeles Chargers' 55th in the National Football League (NFL), their 65th overall, their ninth in the Greater Los Angeles Area, their fifth playing their home games at SoFi Stadium, and their first under head coach Jim Harbaugh [1] and new general manager Joe Hortiz.
The NFL only considers kickoffs, safety kicks or onside kicks to be free kicks and specifically states that a fair-catch kick "is not a free kick." There's also this from Rule 10, Section 2 ...
The Chargers responded by stopping Tyrone Wheatley after two short runs and Brown missed Chris Calloway on third down. Chargers punt returner Andre Coleman fumbled the kick on fourth down, however, and the Giants recovered. [7] With the ball on the San Diego 23-yard line, it took the Giants four plays to score as Brown ran in from three yards out.