JACKSONVILLE – Senior writer John Oehser examines five memorable plays by the special teams that helped define the Jaguars’ 2025 AFC South Championship season.
1. Record-breaker. The Jaguars made a slew of memorable special-teams plays in 2025, with one standing out from the rest. Second-year kicker Cam Little‘s 68-yard field goal against the Las Vegas Raiders in Week 9 not only set the NFL record for longest field goal, it keyed the Jaguars’ critical 30-29 road overtime victory. “That was what ignited us, I think,” Head Coach Liam Coen said of Little’s 68-yarder on the final play of the first half that broke the former record of 66 yards set by former Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker in 2021. “I kicked it straight,” Little said. “It kind of just stayed left-middle deep the whole time. It didn’t really draw much. Once [punter/holder] Logan [Cooke] threw his arms up, I kind of had an idea it was going in. You go so far back and that ball takes a long time for it to get there. You don’t want to ever celebrate too early before the kick goes in. Once I saw it clear the crossbar, obviously that’s when I knew it was good.” Little joked afterward that his pre-kick thoughts were: “Crap, this is a 68-yarder.” Little entered the game having missed three of his last six field-goal attempts, missing a 50-yard field goal in each of the previous two games – losses to the Seattle Seahawks and Los Angeles Rams. “Everybody’s been trying to get us to lose confidence in him; we have never lost confidence in him,” Coen said at the time, with Little adding, “This organization, from top to bottom, from front office to coaching staff to players, has instilled so much confidence in me through adversity that I’ve faced – really, for the first time in my career. They let me know how much confidence they have in me. I’m forever indebted to this place.”