While we know more after Week 2 than we did after Week 1, there are still more questions than answers around the NFL right now—a lot more. Whether big performances or disastrous debacles in Week 2 are symptoms of something bigger or a blip on the radar for those teams is not our concern here, as we take a look who's reaching boiling temperatures across the league, and who's coming dangerously close to freezing temperatures in our NFL Week 2 Thermometer. Week 2 in the NFL gave us just as much reason to laugh with these follies as it gave us to gasp with all the upsets.
Who's Hot Across the NFL Coming Out of Week 2 Ka'imi Fairbairn & the Kicker Revolution Reports on the downfall of the NFL kicker have been greatly exaggerated. While NFL Fantasy Football commissioners across the nation attempt to remove kickers from their leagues, the NFL's resident boots have been putting on an absolute show through the first two weeks as they do their best American Sniper impressions: Texans kicker Ka'imi Fairbairn set an NFL record with six 50+ yard field goals in a two-week span. NFL kickers made 21 50+ yarders in Week 1, the most of any single week on record.
NFL kickers made 73 field goals in Week 2, the most ever for a single week in NFL history. Kickers have hit 35 of 39 50+ yard field goals for a success rate of 89.7, the highest ever through the first two weeks of a season.
Fairbairn and Steelers kicker Chris Boswell both nailed a trio of 50+ yarders in Week 1, the first time multipl.