It's fair to say that we're living in a Golden Age of Kickers right now in the NFL. Not only are kickers extending the boundaries of what we've come to accept as 'field goal range,' with 60-yarders becoming nearly as common as 50-yarders were only two decades ago, but in the last five seasons alone, we've seen five of the top six seasons in terms of most field goals made in a single season.
Sure, a 17-game schedule, introduced in the 2021 season, has opened the door for such records to be threatened with greater regularity, but the regularity with which kickers have gotten within shouting distance of the single season records in the kicking game exceeds that with nearly any other statistical category.