<Li> Bob Cameron is the all - time CFL career punts and punt yards leader with 3,129 punts and 134,301 punt yards over 394 games . </Li> <Li> Shane Lechler holds the NFL record for career punting average at 47.29 yards per punt (855 punts for 40,429 yards) over the 2000--2010 seasons . </Li> <Li> Sammy Baugh averaged 51.40 yards per punt in 1940 (35 punts for 1,799 yards). Lechler holds the modern single - season record with a 51.14 yards per punt average in 2009 (96 punts for 4,909 yards) </Li> <Li> The record for college football is held by the University of Nevada's Pat Brady, who booted the longest possible punt on a 100 - yard field at 99 yards against Loyola University on October 28, 1950 . </Li>

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