Packers P Corey Bojorquez blasts second-longest punt in team history

Green Bay Packers punter Corey Bojorquez caught the low snap around his own 3-yard line and didn’t actually hit his punt until about the 6-yard line.

The football didn’t come to a stop until it had rolled into the end zone on the opposite side of the field.

Bojorquez’s impressive third-quarter punt against the Chicago Bears on Sunday traveled 82 yards, the second-longest punt in team history and the longest punt in the NFL so far this season.

“That was a pretty significant punt,” Packers coach Matt LaFleur said. “He just drove the ball. Luckily it went over the returner’s head.”

The ball sailed over Damiere Byrd’s head and landed at around the 17-yard line, meaning the punt traveled around 77 yards in the air. It needed only three bounces to get to the end zone.

The punt might have resulted in a touchback, but even after losing 20 yards, the end result was a punt creating 62 yards of field position.

“I was a 62-yard net. You’ll take that all day every day,” LaFleur said.

Bojorquez is no stranger to long punts. He hit a 70-yard punt that went out of bounds at the 1-yard line with the Rams during the preseason, and his 72-yard punt last year with the Bills was the longest punt in the NFL in 2020.

Don Chandler, a member of the NFL’s All-Decade Team for the 1960s, holds the team record for longest punt at 90 yards. He hit the 90-yarder during a 1965 game against San Francisco. The longest punt in NFL history is 98 yards.

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