NFL kickers are attempting field goals from deeper and deeper each season.

“Guys certainly are making some big kicks, some long kicks,” Steelers kicker Shaun Suisham said. “Just about anybody in the league, from 60 (yards), you have a chance to make a field goal.”

Kickers routinely hit 50-yard field goals, which were a rarity in previous generations.

Field goal accuracy has increased five percent since last season.

NFL kickers are converting at an 87.7 percent rate (370 of 422), up from 82.9 percent (838 of 1011) in 2011.

“I think kickers are more athletic than they have ever been,” NFL Network analyst Charles Davis said. “If you were bored and went through all the media guides and checked on the background of the kickers now, I think you would find all of them were very good athletes in high school.”