The NFL’s owners pushed the ball spot on extra points back from the 2-yardline earlier this week mostly because, well, the play had become about as exciting as a blank sheet of paper.
Kickers across the league missed exactly eight of 1,230 point-after-touchdown (PAT) attempts last season, a conversion rate of 99.3 percent. The Ravens’ Justin Tucker continued his streak of having never missed one in the NFL.
But kickers also missed just one of 35 field-goal attempts last season when the ball was spotted on the 15, where it will now reside on PAT attempts after the owners voted 30-2 to make a change (with Oakland and Washington voting nay.