by Nick Webster
A week back we published a piece about Denico Autry blocking his 12th kick in the NFL, and lo and behold, he blocked another one this past weekend. This caused us to go back and look across Autry's career to see about any interesting streaks. What we found is that we missed a blocked kick in 2021 - actually on 1/2/2022 - in the 2021 season.
What's our process? We go in every Sunday night (and Monday night following MNF) and scour the Gamebooks for Sacks, Tackles, PD's, Stuffs, Blocked Kicks, Ejections, all the fun stuff and then update our records weekly. However, there are occasional adjustments made mid-week, a solo sack becomes shared, a PD is added, etc. The NFL publishes these post-game changes usually on Wednesday after further film review. In this circumstance, we missed one.
So, Denico Autry now stands at 14 career blocked kicks - and rather than this last one tying him with the great Julius Peppers it puts him one clear and all alone at 14 blocks in 10th-place all-time. Nobody currently has 15, so his next block - if he has one - won't move him up the leaderboard, and he sits behind Wahoo McDaniel and Irv Cross who each have 16. Given the spotty history in the 1960's (particularly in the AFL) it's possible Wahoo has one or two more than have been identified, but as best we know Denico is #10 in NFL history as a kick blocker.
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