How often do NFL teams try 50-yard field goals?

NFL games had 0.98 field goal tries of 50 yards or longer each in the 2025 regular season, both teams together, nearly three times 1999's 0.34. Counting per game means the switch from 16 to 17 games a team in 2021 doesn't inflate it. The chart starts in 1999, the first season in nflverse's data.

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Measure: Field goal tries of 50+ yards per game. Written from the data below.

  • The latest figure, for 2025, is 0.98.
  • That is 2.9 times the 1999 figure, 0.34.
  • The highest was 1.03 in 2024.
  • The lowest was 0.27 in 2000.

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nflverse, NFL team season stats (nflverse-data)
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Chartly. “How often do NFL teams try 50-yard field goals?” Chart. Data: nflverse, NFL team season stats (nflverse-data), https://github.com/nflverse/nflverse-data/releases/tag/stats_team (data as of January 4, 2026). https://chart.ly/charts/nfl-long-field-goal-attempts (accessed October 15, 2026).

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Season Field goal tries of 50+ yards per game
1999 0.34
2000 0.27
2001 0.29
2002 0.33
2003 0.36
2004 0.36
2005 0.36
2006 0.33
2007 0.38
2008 0.41
2009 0.41
2010 0.42
2011 0.55
2012 0.59
2013 0.56
2014 0.6
2015 0.63
2016 0.59
2017 0.6
2018 0.59
2019 0.57
2020 0.66
2021 0.67
2022 0.83
2023 0.85
2024 1.03
2025 0.98

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