Easily one of the Detroit Lions' best stories of 2024. This kid who never really got a chance in the NFL and hadn't kicked a ...

Kicker Jake Bates set the Detroit Lions franchise single-season scoring record in 2024. Here's where he went to college, his ...

The origin story of Detroit Lions kicker Jake Bates becoming a viral sensation is laced with a bit of comedy, Mike Nolan ...

Jake Bates has a great story. Heck, the Detroit Lions kicker is a great story, but we don’t need to document it here for the purposes of this story. Just know that Bates has one of the strongest legs ...

With his salary at the NFL rookie minimum, $795,000, Bates could probably splurge on the pizza slicer himself. That's not the ...

Never forget: kickers are football players, too! Detroit Lions kicker Jake Bates was awkwardly stretching on the sideline in ...

Jake Bates won't say it all clicked, "because kicking's never going to click," he said Thursday. But the first-year Detroit ...

Bates connected on his only field-goal attempt while going 4-for-4 on PATs in Saturday's 45-31 NFC divisional-round playoff loss to the Commanders. Bates was scarcely used again Saturday, making a ...

The origin story of Detroit Lions kicker Jake Bates becoming a viral sensation is laced with a bit of comedy, Mike Nolan recalls. It was March 30, 2024, and Nolan’s Michigan Panthers trailed by ...