Free-kicks are rare in the NFL. How are they different from field goals? Check out the rules behind this unique play now.

A free kick is sort of like a field goal, but not really. Players line up a bit more like a kickoff, where everyone on offense must be behind the line of scrimmage when the ball is kicked. On defense, ...

Los Angeles Chargers kicker Cameron Dicker just did something no NFL player has done since 1976. What is a fair-catch kick?

After the two teams exchanged timeouts, the Chargers trotted out Cameron Dicker for the 57-yard, fair-catch kick. Dicker knocked the football through the uprights for the first successful fair ...

The Chargers forced a Broncos punt after Justin ... encountered at the end of the first half. “It’s a fair-catch, free-kick situation; we practice it,” Payton told Amazon sideline reporter ...

I know he is, and he did.” It took a number of circumstances for the Chargers’ Cameron Dicker to become the first kicker to convert a fair catch free kick since Wersching did it while with the ...

On Thursday night, viewers got a lesson on a little-known rule: the fair catch free kick. The Denver Broncos couldn't run out the rest of the first half against the Los Angeles Chargers so they ...

It had not happened in nearly 50 years, but Thursday night's NFL game saw the first successful fair catch free kick since 1976. Just before halftime, the Chargers' Derius Davis called for a fair ...