Cam
Little.
Cam
Little.
Arkansas· 6'1"· 172 lb
"Arkansas never missed an extra point in the three years he was on the roster, and the league found out two seasons later that all that accuracy had been quietly hiding the biggest leg in football."Pre-draft read
Little is a pure placekicker with a compact, low-noise operation: short approach, quiet plant foot, and a strike off the same spot on the ball every time. The Arkansas calling card was repeatability — three years as the outright starter, 129 extra points without a miss, and a field-goal chart that never wobbled.
The second trait is the one nobody priced correctly. His leg speed generates carry his college usage never asked for, because Arkansas rarely pushed him past 50 and he handled almost no kickoffs. Under pressure he is unhurried: as a true freshman he went 3 for 3 from 46, 48 and 51 against No. 17 Mississippi State. That mix of ice and torque is the signature: an accuracy profile that reads conservative on a leg that reads unlimited.
Any operation that wants the field-goal chart extended past 60 yards, especially a coordinator willing to treat the 55-to-65 range as a live down instead of a punt.
Year 1: outright starting placekicker with no camp competition. Ceiling: a franchise kicker who changes fourth-down math by making 60-plus a real option.
A staff that treats anything past 52 as automatic punt territory and keeps a separate kickoff specialist, which strands the exact trait that makes him worth a roster spot.
His range is not a gimmick; it is a play-calling input.
Cam Little // NFL Draft Prospect // Arkansas Kicker
Pre-draft reel of the Arkansas operation: approach, strike and the repeatability that made him the top kicker in the 2024 class.
Cam Little Breaks the NFL Record with a 68-yard field goal
The record kick at Las Vegas on November 2, 2025, passing Justin Tucker's 66-yarder for the longest field goal in NFL history.
Cam Little HITS A 70-YARD FIELD GOAL
The 70-yard preseason make against Pittsburgh in August 2025, the longest successful field goal recorded at any level of organized football.
A three-year SEC starter who arrived as the No. 1 kicking recruit in his class and never gave the job back. Little was Arkansas's placekicker from his first game in 2021 through his last in 2023, which is a rarer resume line than it sounds at a position where most rooms churn annually.
The production is remarkably flat in the best way: 20 of 24 with a 51-yard long as a freshman, 13 of 16 as a sophomore, 20 of 24 with a career-long 56 against Ole Miss as a junior. He finished 53 of 64 for his career at 82.8 percent, the best mark in program history, and made all 129 extra points he ever attempted. He was a Freshman All-American in 2021, went 3 for 3 from 46, 48 and 51 against No. 17 Mississippi State that November, and made first-team All-SEC in 2023. The flags were volume, not accuracy — he almost never kicked off, so teams had no data on the one job that pays a kicker's second contract.
Evaluators widely called him the best pure leg in the class, but the position tax is real: he was the third kicker off the board, behind Will Reichard and Joshua Karty. Jacksonville took him at 212 as a 20-year-old, the youngest kicker ever drafted, waived the incumbent in July, and handed him the job before the season started.
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Accuracy floor
Three straight seasons above 81 percent in the SEC with no regression, finishing 53 of 64 for the best field-goal percentage in Arkansas history.
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Perfect on extra points
129 attempts, 129 makes across three years, which is the cleanest indicator that the operation and the strike never varied.
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Leg talent
The carry on his ball far exceeded his college attempt distance, a latent trait that showed up the moment an NFL staff let him swing from 55-plus.
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Composure
Went 3 for 3 from 46, 48 and 51 yards as a true freshman in a win over No. 17 Mississippi State, and never looked rattled in an SEC environment.
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Availability and youth
Started 38 games in three years and entered the league at 20 years old, giving a team the longest possible runway at the position.
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No kickoff resume
Arkansas gave him only a handful of kickoffs, so evaluators had almost no data on the second half of a modern kicker's job description.
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Untested distance
He attempted very few kicks beyond 50 in college, which meant his range projection was a leg-speed guess rather than a documented chart.
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Frame
At 172 pounds he was the lightest specialist in the class, and durability at that build was a fair if unglamorous question.
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Position value
The tape gave a team no reason to spend real capital, and a sixth-round kicker still has to beat a veteran in camp or the pick evaporates.
| Yr | Team | G | FGM | FGA | FG% | XPM | XPA | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Arkansas | 13 | 20 | 24 | 83.3 | 46 | 46 | 106 |
| 2022 | Arkansas | 13 | 13 | 16 | 81.3 | 50 | 50 | 89 |
| 2023 | Arkansas | 12 | 20 | 24 | 83.3 | 33 | 33 | 93 |
| Career | — | 38 | 53 | 64 | 82.8 | 129 | 129 | 288 |
Verified season by season against cfbstats.com Arkansas place-kicking pages (2021-2023) and cross-checked with the Arkansas Razorbacks and ESPN bios; the three seasons sum exactly to the career line (53/64 FG, 129/129 XP, 288 points, 38 games). Best field-goal percentage in Arkansas history and a perfect career extra-point record. Kickoff work was negligible: cfbstats credits him with only six kickoffs in 2021 (five touchbacks) and no kickoff table in 2022 or 2023, so kickoff volume is intentionally left out rather than zero-filled.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
A high-percentage starter whose long-range reputation becomes a weekly weapon and a locked-in roster spot for a decade.
The ceiling he has already brushed: elite accuracy paired with record distance, a kicker whose leg genuinely changes how an offense calls the end of a half.
The floor: a steady, accurate professional who holds a starting job for years without the distance ever becoming the story.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Jacksonville waived Riley Patterson in late July of 2024 and never looked back. Little went 27 of 29 as a rookie with a long of 59 and a perfect 27 for 27 on extra points, made the PFWA All-Rookie Team, and gave the Jaguars the position stability they had lacked for years. Then 2025 turned him into a headline. He opened the preseason by making a 70-yard field goal against Pittsburgh — the longest successful kick recorded at any level of organized football. On November 2 at Las Vegas he hit a 68-yarder at the end of the first half to break Justin Tucker's NFL record, and in the Week 18 finale against Tennessee he added a 67-yarder, the longest outdoor field goal in league history. He finished the year 30 of 34 with 140 points.
In hindsight this is one of the best value picks in the entire 2024 class. The evaluation was right about the floor and badly conservative about the ceiling: everyone saw a metronome, nobody saw a record-breaker, because Arkansas simply never asked him to kick from 60. Two years in he owns the two longest field goals in NFL history, sits at 90.5 percent for his career, and enters 2026 as the unchallenged starter on the last two years of his rookie deal, still the youngest kicker in the league. The only thing 212 got wrong was that it was 200 picks too late.
Data note: Verified season by season against cfbstats.com Arkansas place-kicking pages (2021-2023) and cross-checked with the Arkansas Razorbacks and ESPN bios; the three seasons sum exactly to the career line (53/64 FG, 129/129 XP, 288 points, 38 games). Best field-goal percentage in Arkansas history and a perfect career extra-point record. Kickoff work was negligible: cfbstats credits him with only six kickoffs in 2021 (five touchbacks) and no kickoff table in 2022 or 2023, so kickoff volume is intentionally left out rather than zero-filled.