The Jacksonville Jaguars are counting on the youngest kicker ever drafted to bring stability to a position that has been one of the league’s most tumultuous over the past four years. Jacksonville employed a whopping 16 kickers between the start of the pandemic and selecting Arkansas' Cam Little in the sixth round of last week’s NFL draft.
FILE - Arkansas kicker Cameron Little runs a drill at the NFL football scouting combine, Sunday, March 3, 2024, in Indianapolis. The Jacksonville Jaguars are now counting on the youngest kicker ever drafted, Cam Little of Arkansas , to stop a revolving door and bring stability to a position that has been one of the league’s most tumultuous over the last four years. FILE - Arkansas kicker Cameron Little poses for a portrait at the NFL football Combine, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, in Indianapolis.
And despite ranking 31st in the NFL in field-goal rate over that four-year span — one of just two teams under 80% — the Jaguars weren’t planning to choose Little until Denver’s Wil Lutz reneged on a three-year agreement in the opening hours of free agency. Lambo, the NFL’s most accurate kicker between 2017 and 2020, reclaimed the job in 2021 under new coach Urban Meyer. But Lambo missed five kicks in Jacksonville’s first three games and suddenly had confidence issues.
Baalke and Pederson dumped Wright in 2022 and opened camp with rookie Andrew Mevis competing with Ryan Santoso for the job. Neither panned out. Patterson lasted less than a year. The team wanted a stronger leg and scooped up veteran Brandon McManus when Denver dumped him last spring. McManus’ arrival seemed as if he would end the team’s kicking carousel.
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