NFL career scoring leaders

The top 25 scorers in National Football League history are listed below. All players listed are placekickers and all statistics include regular season scoring only.

Active players are listed in bold (age in parentheses).

Statistics are accurate as of Week 11 of the 2016 season.^[1]

Rank	Player	Career	Points
1	Morten Andersen	1982–2007	2,544
2	Gary Anderson	1982–2004	2,434
3	Adam Vinatieri (43)	1996–present	2,340
4	Jason Hanson	1992–2012	2,150
5	John Carney	1988–2010	2,062
6	Matt Stover	1991–2009	2,004
7	George Blanda	1949–1975	2,002
8	Jason Elam	1993–2009	1,983
9	John Kasay	1991–2011	1,970
10	Sebastian Janikowski (38)	2000–present	1,755
11	Norm Johnson	1982–1999	1,736
12	David Akers	1998–2013	1,721
13	Nick Lowery	1978–1996	1,711
14	Jan Stenerud	1967–1985	1,699
15	Ryan Longwell	1997–2011	1,687
16	Phil Dawson (41)	1999–present	1,675
17	Lou Groza	1946–1967	1,608
18	Eddie Murray	1980–2000	1,594
19	Al Del Greco	1984–2000	1,584
20	Olindo Mare	1997–2012	1,555
21	Steve Christie	1990–2004	1,476
22	Pat Leahy	1974–1991	1,470
23	Jay Feely	2001–2014	1,451
24	Jim Turner	1964–1979	1,439
25	Matt Bryant (41)	2000–present	1,429

Non-kickers

The top five scoring non-kickers in NFL history are listed here with their overall scoring rank. Note that only two non-kickers are in the top 50 scorers of all-time (although George Blanda played as both a quarterback and a kicker, 1,966 of his 2,002 points were scored as a kicker).

Rank	Player	Position	Career	Points
35	Jerry Rice	Wide receiver	1985–2004	1,256
50	Emmitt Smith	Running back	1990–2004	1,052
59	LaDainian Tomlinson	Running back	2001–2011	972
65	Randy Moss	Wide receiver	1998–2012	950
68	Terrell Owens	Wide receiver	1996–2010	942

References

1. "NFL Career Scoring Leaders". pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved October 23, 2016.