Football

Punts for negative yards

by Ben Austro - 0
Backward Punt Cartoon

Sometimes punts don't even make it back to the line of scrimmage. Negative-yard punts, 1978-present Boxscore link to Pro Football Reference. Video. Home team in italics. Date Kicking Receiving Yds Punter Punt 9/3/1978 Seattle Seahawks San Diego Chargers -1 Jeff West kicked high, OOB 9/17/1978 Buffalo Bills Miami Dolphins   -24 Rusty Jackson snap over head, hastily punted ball went OOB 9/23/1984 Minnesota Vikings Detroit Lions -9 Greg Coleman snap over head, hastily punted ball

How the 2024 Draft order is determined

by Ben Austro - 0

The NFL Draft order is determined by a combination of regular season records, postseason performance, and the strength of schedule in the 2023 season. The Super Bowl winner is ranked 32; their opponents are 31. Next, the remaining teams are assigned to 4 groups based on their playoff performance: losers of the

2023 NFC tiebreakers after Week 17

by Jeremy Snyder - 0

The following charts seek to answer the following question: If these two (or more) teams finish with the same record, who wins the tiebreaker? Notes and assumptions: No possibility of future tie games. Tiebreaker winners are as they would be if the teams were tied at the end of the season,

Ejections for the 2023 season

by Ben Austro - 6

A running list of players ejected in the 2023 season. NEW! We have all ejections from 1978 to present on its own page.   Week Game Player Pos Team Reason Time Referee 1. PRE 2 CHI-IND Jalen Harris DL CHI Swinging at an opponent 5:40/4Q George† 2. PRE 3 LAR-DEN Tre Tomlinson DB LAR Tackle by facemask 9:36/1Q Allen 3. 2 WAS-DEN Kareem Jackson S DEN Launching at defenseless receiver 1:47/2Q Rogers 4. 4 LV-LAC Jerry Tillery DT LV Late hit out of bounds 9:00/2Q Hussey 5. 6 BAL-TEN‡ Kyle Hamilton S BAL Hit to head of defenseless receiver 8:37/3Q Vinovich 6. 7 ARI--SEA D.J. Humphries LT ARI Contact with an official 9:32/2Q Novak 7. DEN-GB Kareem

The race to Number 0

by Ben Austro - 0

For those who are jersey number purists, the past two years have been riddled with anxiety. After the NFL opened up wide swaths of numbers in 2021 for essentially all players that don't go into a 3- or 4-point stance, the Eagles proposed to take things a step further. Why not

How the 2023 Draft order is determined

by Ben Austro - 0

The NFL Draft order is determined by a combination of regular season records, postseason performance, and the strength of schedule in the 2022 season. The Super Bowl winner will be ranked 32; their opponents, will be 31. Next, the remaining teams are assigned to 4 groups based on their playoff performance: losers

2022 NFC tiebreakers after Week 16

by Jeremy Snyder - 0

The following charts seek to answer the following question: If these two (or more) teams finish with the same record, who wins the tiebreaker? Notes and assumptions: No possibility of future tie games except for CAR-NO. Tiebreaker winners are as they would be if the teams were tied at the end

2022 AFC tiebreakers after Week 16

by Jeremy Snyder - 0

The following charts seek to answer the following question: If these two (or more) teams finish with the same record, who wins the tiebreaker? Notes and assumptions: No possibility of future tie games (tie scenarios may be added next week). Tiebreaker winners are as they would be if the teams were

Offensive linemen who passed, ran, or received

by Jeremy Snyder - 0

Offensive linemen almost never get the chance to touch the ball after the snap. Their job is to block for the smaller, faster players behind them, and unlike the players lined up on their outside, they are prohibited from catching a forward pass directly from the quarterback. When a player north