Fair Catch On A Kickoff 2024 Schrikkeljaar. After a fair catch, an nfl team has the right to take a free kick from the line of scrimmage on the next play. The fair catch allows the receiving team to catch a punt or kickoff without the risk of being tackled, helping to preserve player safety while maintaining field position.

Curly lambeau—yes, that lambeau— made the first fair catch kick in 1921. Dicker’s attempt was just the sixth in the 21st century and there wans’t a single fair catch kick attempted in the 1990s.