The Buffalo Bills have a top-end special teams unit. That’s due in part to the coaching staff’s focus on ensuring that the “third unit” is stocked with talented players. Whether it’s covering kickoffs or punts, returning those kickoffs or punts, or merely executing kicks, the Bills have players on the roster who are all among the best at their job in the league.
In today’s installment of our “90 players in 90 days” series, we profile one of the more high-visibility players on the special teams: the kicker. We’ve come a long way from the days where coaches (I’m thinking of Bill Parcells here, who famously wondered whether his kicker could kick, not play) looked upon their kickers with scorn.