List of National Football League career scoring leaders

The top 25 scorers in National Football League history are all placekickers. Statistics include regular season scoring only.

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

Statistics are accurate as of end of the 2020 season.[1]

Rank	Player	Career	Points
1	Adam Vinatieri (48)	1996–2019	2,673
2	Morten Andersen	1982–2007	2,544
3	Gary Anderson	1982–2004	2,434
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	2000–2018	1,913
11	Stephen Gostkowski (37)	2006–present	1,875
12	Phil Dawson	1999–2019	1,847
13	Matt Bryant (45)	2002–present	1,758
14	Norm Johnson	1982–1999	1,736
15	Robbie Gould (38)	2005–present	1,731
16	David Akers	1998–2013	1,721
17	Nick Lowery	1978–1996	1,711
18	Jan Stenerud	1967–1985	1,699
19	Ryan Longwell	1997–2011	1,687
20	Mason Crosby (36)	2007–present	1,682
21	Lou Groza	1946–1967	1,608
22	Eddie Murray	1980–2000	1,594
23	Al Del Greco	1984–2000	1,584
24	Olindo Mare	1997–2012	1,555
25	Steve Christie	1990–2004	1,476

Non-kickers

The top five scoring non-kickers in NFL history are listed here with their overall scoring rank. Only one non-kicker, Jerry Rice, is 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
38	Jerry Rice	Wide receiver	1985–2004	1,256
58	Emmitt Smith	Running back	1990–2004	1,052
67	LaDainian Tomlinson	Running back	2001–2011	972
72	Randy Moss	Wide receiver	1998–2012	950
74	Terrell Owens	Wide receiver	1996–2010	942

References

1. "NFL Career Scoring Leaders". pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved October 15, 2018.