1. Tyler Royce Bass was born on February 14,1997 and is an American professional football placekicker for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League.
20 Facts About Tyler Bass
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Tyler Bass played college football for the Georgia Southern Eagles and was selected by the Bills in the sixth round of the 2020 NFL draft.
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Tyler Bass committed to Georgia Southern on January 31,2015.
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Tyler Bass won the Chris Sailer award, awarded to the best high school football kicker, following his senior season.
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Tyler Bass saw significant improvement in his redshirt junior season, making 19 of 21 field goal attempts and 45 of 45 extra point attempts.
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Tyler Bass participated in the 2020 Senior Bowl, making 2 field goals and 4 of 4 extra point attempts.
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Tyler Bass signed a four-year, $3.475 million contract with the Bills on May 7,2020.
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Tyler Bass then gained national attention after posting practice videos of him kicking a 50-yard field goal without taking a single step toward the football and a 60-yard field goal with only one step.
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Tyler Bass drove two and a half hours from South Carolina to Birmingham, Alabama for weekly training sessions with the team's long snapper and holder.
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Tyler Bass then missed his second attempt from 34 yards before connecting from 22 and 19 yards.
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Tyler Bass made his next four field goal attempts over the next five games, including a 48-yarder against the Kansas City Chiefs in week 6, before missing on a 52-yard attempt in the same game.
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Tyler Bass set several franchise records in that game, including the most field goal attempts attempted by a Bills kicker in one game.
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Tyler Bass became the first kicker in Bills history to make three field goals longer than 50 yards in one game, and just the second kicker in NFL history to make 3 field goals longer than 54 yards in the same game.
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Tyler Bass converted 28 of his 34 field goal attempts and 57 of his 59 extra points, totaling 141 points.
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Tyler Bass broke Scott Norwood's franchise records of extra points attempted and made in a single season.
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Tyler Bass was named AFC Special Teams Player of the Month for October 2021, making all of his extra point attempts while converting all 10 of his field goal attempts.
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Tyler Bass converted all five extra point attempts and all three field goal attempts in the Bills' two postseason games.
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Bills quarterback Josh Allen defended Tyler Bass' missed kick, saying the team should never have been in that situation to begin with.
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In Week 9, Tyler Bass set a new franchise record for longest field goal in Buffalo Bills history at 61 yards.
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The kick came in a game in which Tyler Bass had otherwise struggled, in which Tyler Bass had missed an extra point and bounced another off an upright.