List of NFL career scoring leaders

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

List

Adam Vinatieri has scored the most points in NFL history.

Key

Rank	Rank amongst leaders in scoring. A blank field indicates a tie
Player	Player name
Pos.	Player's position(s)
Points	Points scored
*	denotes elected to Pro Football Hall of Fame
Bold	denotes active player

Updated through the 2023 season^[1]

Rank	Player	Pos.	Points
1	Adam Vinatieri	K	2,673
2	Morten Andersen *	K	2,544
3	Gary Anderson	K	2,434
4	Jason Hanson	K	2,150
5	John Carney	K	2,062
6	Matt Stover	K	2,004
7	George Blanda *	K, QB	2,002
8	Jason Elam	K	1,983
9	John Kasay	K	1,970
10	Robbie Gould	K	1,961
11	Mason Crosby	K	1,939
12	Sebastian Janikowski	K	1,913
13	Stephen Gostkowski	K	1,875
14	Phil Dawson	K	1,847
15	Matt Prater	K	1,780
16	Matt Bryant	K	1,758
17	Norm Johnson	K	1,736
18	David Akers	K	1,721
19	Nick Lowery	K	1,711
20	Jan Stenerud *	K	1,699
21	Ryan Longwell	K	1,687
22	Justin Tucker	K	1,649
23	Nick Folk	K	1,632
24	Lou Groza *	K, OT	1,608
25	Eddie Murray	K	1,594

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.

Rank	Player	Position	Career	Points
43	Jerry Rice	Wide receiver	1985–2004	1,256
62	Emmitt Smith	Running back	1990–2004	1,052
74	LaDainian Tomlinson	Running back	2001–2011	972
79	Randy Moss	Wide receiver	1998–2012	950
82	Terrell Owens	Wide receiver	1996–2010	942

Historical career scoring leaders

NFL historical career scoring leaders

No.	Reign	Player	Team(s) while leader	Pts	Season(s)	Refs
1	1920	Lenny Sachs	Chicago Cardinals	12	1920	[2]
2	1921	Elmer Oliphant	Buffalo All-Americans	47	1921	[3]
3	1922	Dutch Sternaman	Chicago Bears	77	1922	[4]
4	1923–1941	Paddy Driscoll	Chicago Cardinals (1923–1925) Chicago Bears (1926–1929)	143	1923	[5]
				177	1924	[6]
				244	1925	[7]
				330	1926	[8]
				373	1927	[9]
				393	1928	[10]
				402	1929–1941	[11][12]
5	1942–1956	Don Hutson	Green Bay Packers	526	1942	[13]
				643	1943	[14]
				728	1944	[15]
				825	1945–1956	[16][17]
6	1957–1970	Lou Groza	Cleveland Browns	893	1957	[18]
				953	1958	[19]
				1,001	1959	[20]
				1,086	1961	[21]
				1,161	1962	[22]
				1,246	1963	[23]
				1,361	1964	[24]
				1,454	1965	[25]
				1,532	1966	[26]
				1,608	1967–1970	[27][28]
7	1971–1999	George Blanda	Oakland Raiders	1.647	1971	[29]
				1,742	1972	[30]
				1,842	1973	[31]
				1,919	1974	[32]
				2,002	1975–1999	[33][34]
8	2000–2005	Gary Anderson	Minnesota Vikings (2000–2002) Tennessee Titans (2003–2003)	2,059	2000	[35]
				2,133	2001	[36]
				2,223	2002	[37]
				2,346	2003	[38]
				2,434	2004–2005	[39][40]
9	2006–2017	Morten Andersen	Atlanta Falcons	2,445	2006	[41]
				2,544	2007	[42]
10	2018–present	Adam Vinatieri	Indianapolis Colts	2,600	2018	[43]
				2,673	2019–present	[44][45]

See also

• List of NFL annual scoring leaders
• List of NFL individual records