GOAT PK HOLDER

The greatest placekick holders of all time had to come from the era when most teams had backup (and occasionally starting) QBs or WRs do the job, since in the case of a fake or a bad snap you had someone back there who could actually accomplish something offensively, instead of now where it's usually the punter and if the snap goes bad you've got two pencil-necked Waldos running around back there who haven't played actual competitive football since high school simply hoping to fall on the ball before they get annihilated.

Didn't the Steelers have Randle-El hold for a couple seasons?

 

Belichick has actually addressed this.
When he is at his most charming - discussing football wonkery.
He says the ideal holder is a punter since it won't keep a quarterback from spending practice with those of his position.

 

Not Tony Romo.

 

Tom Tupa.

 

Oh yah. Like the No. 3 QB gets a lot of snaps in practice.



For the 17-0 Dolphins of 1972, Earl Morrall, who was the starting QB almost the entire season, was the holder.

 

"Not Dan Marino."

- Ray Finkle

 

Matt Flynn and it isn't close.

 

QBs were often holders in the days of smaller rosters, when there weren't specialists available. Wasn't the Dolphins' punter also a TE?

 

Nope. The No. 3 QB is now just another roster position (as of the 2011 season). He's the guy who gets paid $800,000 for never ever setting foot on the field during the season.

 

Jeffrey Hostetler, winning QB and holder in Super Bowl XXV.

 

Active rosters are 46 now; they haven't been below 45 since 1978.

(Yet, since then, virtually every single team has come to devote a roster spot specifically to long snappers.)