Will Reichard could come out of the Minnesota Vikings’ season finale on Sunday with two Alabama NFL records.

The most kicking points scored and the most field goals made by an Alabama alumnus were recorded by David Ray in 1973. The former Central-Phenix City standout led the NFL that season with 130 points and 30 field goals.

Reichard has tied Ray’s record with 30 field goals, and the former Hoover star enters Sunday’s finale with 120 points in the 2025 campaign.

Reichard will be kicking in his 17th game this season while NFL teams played 14 games in Ray’s big year. But while Reichard has played more games, he hasn’t taken more kicks than Ray, who played for the NFL’s highest-scoring team in 1973.

Ray made 30-of-47 field-goal attempts and 40-of-42 extra-point kicks that season. In 2025, Reichard has hit 30-of-32 field-goal attempts and all 30 of his PATs (with extra points 13 yards farther out than when Ray played).

Only one of the regular NFL kickers has fewer misses this season than Reichard. The New York Jets’ Nick Folk has made 28-of-29 field-goal attempts and all 22 of his PATs.

“I think it’s just a credit to who this guy is,” Vikings special-teams coach Matt Daniels said about Reichard. “He’s got a true killer mindset, a growth mindset. … You look at it – 30-for-32. This guy is wired the right way.”

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Reichard’s field goals also differ from Ray and his era in another way. In 1973, Ray attempted one field goal of 50 or more yards. Reichard enters the final weekend of the regular season tied with the Dallas Cowboys’ Brandon Aubrey and Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ Chase McLaughlin with 11 field goals made from at least 50 yards out.

Reichard is among the six players in NFL history to make at least four field goals from 59 or more yards, and he hit them all this season, with a franchise-record 62-yarder in a 48-10 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals on Sept. 21.

“You look at just the overall — how I want to put this? — his portfolio of kicks on the year,” Daniels said. “I mean, he tied for the longest at Soldier Field, really going against the win, 59-yarder. He hits the second-longest at Lambeau (Field) dating back since David Akers in 2004.

“And I think the — not really unfortunate part — but we really haven’t had those ice-in-the-veins kind of walkoff, winning field goals yet in his career. But in moments when we needed them the most, whether it’s to go up by three with two minutes left in the game and defense got to get a stop or it’s to put ourselves in a position to basically go up another possession or extra three or seven points right there, he’s been able to do that and capitalize on those biggest of moments.”

Reichard’s two misses in 2025 came from 51 yards in a 21-17 victory over the Cleveland Browns on Oct. 5 and 53 yards in a 37-10 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers on Oct. 23. Reichard has made 16 field-goal attempts in a row since the second miss.

Both misses might deserve asterisks.

The Vikings complained to the league office that Reichard’s wide-right kick against Cleveland didn’t go through the uprights because the football nicked a camera-support cable over the field on its way toward the goalpost at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London.

The kick against Los Angeles was on target but didn’t reach the crossbar. In that instance, Reichard and the field-goal unit rushed onto the field on fourth down with time running out in the first half. Because of the circumstances, the Vikings did not get to use their K-ball, and Reichard instead kicked the game ball instead.

A K-ball, or kicking ball, is used for almost all kicking situations in the NFL. Teams have the opportunity to break in the balls, which leaves them softer and more pliable than the footballs used for game play.

The Vikings close their season against the Green Bay Packers at noon CST Sunday at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.

At 9-6-1, the Packers are locked into the No. 7 seed and a road game as a wild-card qualifier for the NFC playoffs. The Vikings enter their final game with an 8-8 mark for 2025.