2021 Best Positional Coach: Kicker Edition

Ah, the all-important, most sought-after distinction of all the position groups – the placekicker. A position full of legends like Jason Hanson, Matt Prater’s breathalyzer, and Sebastian Janikowski’s rap sheet.

After a brief reprieve of Dave not being an embarrassment, we come back to normalcy with the BF3000s dragging the average down for everyone. As for who’s at the top, I really thought this was Timmo’s award to lose – and lose it he did. Justin Tucker was good enough to set an NFL record and beat the Lions, but not quite good enough to win things here. Instead, it was ~~Keanu~~ ~~Johnny Utah~~ Josh who takes the lead here.

The most expensive kicker on Draft Night was Younghoe Koo ($6, Sanchez), and the first kicker off of the board was Robbie Gould ($4, Dave). Considering that Steve and Dave finished 11 and 12 in Kicker scoring seems to indicate that wasn’t the best strategy. Koo finished the years as K16, while Gould was K22. Daniel Carlson was K1 for the year. He was drafted for $1 by Trigger with pick #261/264. Unfortunately for Triggs, he was dropped just 4 days later, and was picked up and dropped by Dave, and then by Matt, and finished out the year on the Mexico City squad. K2 was Nick Folk, who was drafted as a… backup kicker by the Quasars? He too was dropped shortly after the draft, and eventually picked up by the Sentinels.

	Team	K
1	Josh	2390
2	Timmy	2241
3	Trigger	2238
4	Tan	1996
5	Kronner	1917
6	Kyle	1894
7	Matt	1687
8	Ryan	1671
9	Kaiser	1647
10	Jones	1571
11	Steve	1535
12	Dave	1247

	Avg. Totals	1836.2

A more detailed breakdown shows us that Dave averaged only 89 points a game from the position, with a low mark coming in week 9 when Mason Crosby finished with -5 points. Not to be left out, the other Alley brother also put up a -5 a few weeks later. The highest total by a kicker this year was 343 points – which somehow happened twice, but in week 12. Steve and Josh benefited from those games – with Carlson and Folk doing the actual legwork.

	Chris	Dave	Jones	Josh	Kaiser	Kron	Kyle	Matt	Ryan	Steve	Tim	Trig
1	179	207	151	51	101	104	189	216	98	88	177	170
2	170	96	50	224	50	184	50	244	0	81	103	152
3	40	200	89	175	76	99	208	30	176	90	312	164
4	92	20	60	162	248	216	233	31	83	10	206	129
5	225	56	172	120	132	61	105	182	192	123	43	143
6	229	94	127	30	40	158	199	163	47	87	191	107
7	175	84	72	199	87	96	210	132	261	75	95	155
8	142	71	65	265	30	199	176	190	63	95	81	117
9	0	-5	124	92	104	101	115	40	200	142	163	200
10	175	87	84	123	140	161	109	190	179	20	81	72
11	150	78	30	277	206	145	5	0	72	133	193	200
12	10	40	124	343	10	10	99	-5	134	343	221	145
13	292	209	179	130	212	183	60	78	151	212	118	246
14	117	10	244	199	211	200	136	196	15	36	257	238

TOTALS	1996	1247	1571	2390	1647	1917	1894	1687	1671	1535	2241	2238
AVERAGE	142.6	89.1	112.2	170.7	117.6	136.9	135.3	120.5	119.4	109.6	160.1	159.9

And if we drop out both the highest and lowest scores…it hurts almost everyone. The only averages that go up are Kronner (+4), Kyle (+2.7), Matt (+0.2) and Ryan (+0.1).

	Chris	Dave	Jones	Josh	Kaiser	Kron	Kyle	Matt	Ryan	Steve	Tim	Trig
1	179	207	151	51	101	104	189	216	98	88	177	170
2	170	96	50	224	50	184	50			81	103	152
3	40	200	89	175	76	99	208	30	176	90		164
4	92	20	60	162				31	83		206	129
5	225	56	172	120	132	61	105	182	192	123		143
6	229	94	127		40	158	199	163	47	87	191	107
7	175	84	72	199	87	96	210	132		75	95	155
8	142	71	65	265	30	199	176	190	63	95	81	117
9			124	92	104	101	115	40	200	142	163	200
10	175	87	84	123	140	161	109	190	179	20	81
11	150	78		277	206	145		0	72	133	193	200
12	10	40	124				99		134		221	145
13			179	130	212	183	60	78	151	212	118
14	117	10		199	211	200	136	196	15	36	257	238

TOTALS	1704	1043	1297	2017	1389	1691	1656	1448	1410	1182	1886	1920
AVERAGE	142.0	86.9	108.1	168.1	115.8	140.9	138.0	120.7	117.5	98.5	157.2	160.0