Free-kicks are rare in the NFL. How are they different from field goals? Check out the rules behind this unique play now.

Chargers' Cameron Dicker made a rare fair-catch free-kick field goal from 57 yards out, the longest in NFL history. Only ...

On Thursday night we got to see a rule that we haven't seen in a long time. We got to see the Chargers go for a fair catch ...

Los Angeles Chargers kicker Cameron Dicker just did something no NFL player has done since 1976. What is a fair-catch kick?

Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker tops the charts as the highest-paid NFL kicker in 2024. His $6.4 million salary is ...

The Chargers forced a Broncos punt after Justin Herbert’s second interception in as many games. On the punt, Broncos ...

Just before halftime of Thursday night’s game between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Denver Broncos, Chargers punt returner ...

In the NFL Rulebook, Section 10, Article 4 states as follows: After a fair catch is made or is awarded as the result of fair ...

Oh, and you also have the option for a drop kick, but we've only seen one of those since 1941. How many fair catch kicks have there been in NFL history? There have been seven successful fair catch ...

or do a drop kick. As for why we don’t see free kicks more often in the NFL? There just aren’t a lot of situations in which they make sense. Most punts are long enough that a field goal would ...

According to the NFL rulebook, a free kick is a kickoff ... option of putting the ball in play by a snap or fair catch kick (drop kick or place kick without a tee) from the spot of the catch ...