Will Reichard

Will Reichard (born January 9, 2001) is an American professional football placekicker for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, becoming the all-time NCAA Division I FBS scoring leader.

Early life Reichard was born on January 9, 2001, and grew up in Hoover, Alabama. Starting in 6th grade, he attended Kohl's Kicking Camps each year and was eventually their number one ranked kicker and number two ranked punter. He attended Hoover High School in his hometown, and made 27-of-29 career field goal attempts and was perfect on extra points, making all 109 attempts. As a senior, Reichard was named to the USA Today All-USA high school football team and played in the Under Armour All-America Game. The nation's top kicker according to ESPN, he received scholarship offers from Auburn, LSU, Oklahoma, Alabama, Oregon, and Georgia, committing to Alabama.

College career 2019 After committing to Alabama, Reichard won the starting placekicker position in training camp, and was given every kicking position to start his first career game. Playing against Duke in week one, he went perfect on 6 extra point attempts, punted twice for 81 yards, and had every kickoff result in a touchback.

2020 As a sophomore in 2020, Reichard played in every game, and went a perfect 98-for-98 on field goals and extra points, becoming only the second Alabama player in history to accomplish that feat. He was named special teams player of the week after games against Texas A&M, LSU, Mississippi State, Georgia, and Tennessee. After placing fifth in the country with 126 points scored, Reichard was a first-team All-America selection by CBS Sports and a second-team pick by The Sporting News. He also was a finalist for the Lou Groza Award, given to the best kicker in the nation. His team went 13–0 that year, and were named national champions. He earned SEC Special Teams Player of the Week honors against Miami and also recorded 106 kickoffs for 6,264 yards (a 59.1 average) with 59 touchbacks. He converted 22 of 26 field goal attempts and all 64 extra points, additionally totaling 95 kickoffs for 5,948 yards and 47 touchbacks, averaging 62.6 yards per. He twice earned SEC Special Teams Player of the Week honors and was named second-team All-SEC by Associated Press and league coaches and honorable mention All-American by Pro Football Focus. He scored nine points against Auburn in the Iron Bowl to tie Keenan Reynolds for the NCAA's all-time scoring mark with 530 points. The following week, he set the record with a field goal in Alabama's SEC Championship Game victory.

Professional career

Reichard was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the sixth round, 203rd overall, of the 2024 NFL draft. Over the first eight weeks of the 2024 season, Reichard made the first 14 field goal attempts of his career, before missing his next two in the Week 9 matchup against the Indianapolis Colts, in which he suffered a minor injury to his oblique muscle. He was placed on injured reserve on November 4, 2024. Reichard was activated on December 7. In Week 15 against the Chicago Bears, Reichard made all three of his field goal attempts as well as all three of his extra point attempts in the 30–12 victory, snapping a two-game streak in which he had missed all three of his prior field goal attempts.

In 2025, during the Vikings' Week 3 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals, Reichard kicked a 62-yard field goal, setting a new franchise record for the longest successful field goal attempt. In Week 5, one of Reichard’s kicks appeared to hit a Skycam wire, resulting in a miss (the NFL Rulebook calls for a retry of the kick in this situation, however the referees did not call for one). Reichard appealed to the NFL to remove the miss from his stats. After initially denying the ball hit the wire, the league later acknowledged that the ball did hit the wire, but would not be adjusting the stats. During the 2025 NFL season, Reichard missed only two field goal attempts (out of 35 attempts).

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Highlights and awards

Vikings franchise record for longest successful field goal (Bengals at Vikings, September 21, 2025) – 62 yards

Personal life Reichard proposed to his high school sweetheart, Amelia Auchmuty on January 29, 2022. They were married January 21, 2023.