ESPN.com · Oct 12, 2021
NFL kickers have historically rough week with record-setting misses
From this moment forward, Week 5 shall be remembered as the week all the kicks were missed. One minute a slew of game-winning field goals -- including Justin Tucker's NFL record 66-yarder in Week 3 -- were ensuring kickers got their flowers, the next they couldn't seem to buy a make.
To be clear, Tucker got out of the Baltimore Ravens' Monday Night Football matchup with the Indianapolis Colts unscathed ... because he's Justin Tucker. But Colts kicker Rodrigo Blankenship wasn't as lucky.
Blankenship's name got added to the list of kickers who fell prey to the Week 5 curse when he delivered the 13th missed extra point of the week.
