30 NFL records that could be broken this season

12. Andy Lee, Most punt yards career

This is one that we’ll need a little luck with. Andy Lee is technically unemployed right now, but the legendary kickers and punters always seem to find that one last job in their 40s. Andy Lee has no rumors of retirement that we can find. Maybe it’s because he’s… you know… a punter, but we’d expect someone to say something about it by now.

Lee isn’t exactly at the top of his game, but he’s still about average against punters across the NFL. When it’s a position with one player per team, that’s still good. He averaged 47.1 yards per punt last year. He also only had four touchbacks on 67 punts. He still had some good ones with his booming leg. His longest punt last season was 65 yards.

This season, the Cardinals might have replaced him with Matt Haack. Doesn’t matter. Someone will find a roster spot for Lee. If a punter gets hurt or is inconsistent, Lee will come off the street and boom 50 yarders with ease.

Lee is about 3,000 yards away from Jeff Feagles’ record for most punting yards all time. Lee has a much better punting average than Feagles, but Feagles had about 250 more punts than Lee. So, as Lee closes the punt gap, he will break the yards record. If he makes 60 punts this season, he needs to average  46.7 yards per punt to break the record. That’s worse than he did last season on fewer punts. Lee just needs a team, and this record is his.