The NFL spent years managing the injury risk presented by kickoffs by minimizing the play. In 2025, the NFL went the other way, moving the touchback point from the 30 to the 35 in an effort to ...

More changes are coming to the NFL’s already heavily modified kickoff rule for the 2026 season, if the NFL competition committee gets its way. The competition committee released its requested set of ...

Nebraska’s most explosive offensive weapon hardly touches the football. But when he does … boom! Sophomore running back Kenneth Williams took the second-half kickoff and not only returned it 95 yards ...

The NFL has put the kickoff return back into the game, as demonstrated when Rashid Shaheed began the Seattle Seahawks’ lopsided victory over the San Francisco 49ers in the divisional round of the NFC ...

There were 1,157 more kickoff returns this season, which led to an increase in concussions. Justin Edmonds / Getty Images A year after its players experienced a historically low number of concussions, ...

The Jets have only won two games this season, and both times they needed big plays on special teams to do it. And both times, a Jets return man has won the AFC Special Teams Player of the Week award.

Seahawks’ 100-yard kickoff return TD was a backbreaker. Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Rashid Shaheed looks back as he runs for a 100-yard touchdown on a kickoff return against the Atlanta Falcons ...

The Vikings gave up a late 56-yard kick return to set up Chicago for the game-winning kick in Sunday's 19-17 loss to the Bears. When Vikings special teams coordinator Matt Daniels talked to the media ...