Teams hit season-high of missed extra points in early Sunday games
— -- NFL place-kickers have failed on a season-high nine extra points in Sunday's early games, continuing a midseason spike that has highlighted the league's efforts to make the kick more difficult.
The misses bring the league's two-week total to 15 and counting. Place-kickers missed six in Week 10.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the league record (since 1970) for missed extra points in a week is 10, set most recently in 1985.
The NFL moved the kick from the 2-yard line to the 15 at the start of the 2015 season, and since then there have been pockets of magnified intensity. There were eight misses in two separate weeks of last season.
Overall, however, the rule change has caused a drop in about five percentage points on the NFL conversion rate. It has also prompted teams to go for two points at about double the rate as before the change, and teams have also been incentivized to seek new strategies for blocking them and -- in three cases -- returning them for two-points conversions.
Despite the chaotic start to Sunday's kicks, the 2016 season has progressed almost exactly as 2015. Entering Sunday's games, the conversion rate was 94.8 percent. The rate was also 94.8 after 10 weeks of the 2015 season.
Here is the list of the eight unsuccessful kicks so far on Sunday:
• Cincinnati Bengals' Mike Nugent (twice)
• Jacksonville Jaguars' Jason Myers
• Minnesota Vikings' Kai Forbath
• New York Giants' Robbie Gould (twice)
