weekly release - New York Giants

LAWRENCE TYNES
9
kicker
Height - 6-1
Weight - 202
College - Troy
HIGH SCHOOL - MILTON (FLA.)
Birthdate - May 3, 1978
How Acquired - Trade (Kansas City, 2007)
NFL Exp. - 9th Year
Giants Exp. - 6th Year
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TRANSACTIONS:
- Originally signed by the Kansas City Chiefs
as a rookie free agent on April 26, 2001…
Released by the Chiefs on Aug. 27, 2001…
Signed by the Chiefs on Jan. 16, 2002…
Released by the Chiefs on Sept. 1, 2002…
Signed by the Ottawa Roughriders (Canadian
Football League) on Sept. 5, 2002….Signed
by the Chiefs on Feb. 9. 2004…Traded to
the Giants on May 22, 2007 for a 7th-round
draft choice.
GIANTS NOTE:
- Tynes kicked overtime field goals to win
both the 2007 and 2011 NFC Championship
Games. He is the only kicker in NFL history
with two postseason game-winning field
goals in overtime.
- Tynes’ game-winning 47-yard field goal
just 2:35 into overtime in the 2007 NFC
Championship Game in Green Bay was the
longest postseason 3-pointer in Lambeau
Field history.
- Tynes is the NFL’s first Scottish-born
player. Although raised in Florida, he was
born in Greenock, Scotland after his parents
met there while his father was a Master
Chief in the U.S. Navy.
- While playing in NFL Europe: played in
10 games as the long-distance kicker for
the Scottish Claymores…Hit nine of 12 field
goals (75.0 percent) for 27 points, with a
long of 49 yards.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
- Tynes has played in 126 regular-season
games and in 10 postseason games…In the
regular season, he has made 190 of 232
(81.9%) regular season field goal attempts
and 349 of 355 extra point tries (98.3%) for
919 points…In postseason play, Tynes has
made 13 of 18 field goal attempts (72.2%)
and all 20 of his extra point tries.
- With the Giants, Tynes has played in
58 regular season games and made 122 of
145 (84.1%) field goal attempts and 214 of
216 extra point tries (99.1%) in the regular
season…Tynes has scored 578 regular season
points for the Giants, placing him 2nd
in franchise history…Tynes’ 214 extra points
place him 2nd in Giants history, behind
Pete Gogolak (268)…Tynes has made 196
consecutive extra point attempts, breaking
Gogolak’s former team record of 133 in a
row…Tynes’ 122 field goals are 4th in Giants
history and his 145 attempts are 5th…In 9
postseason games with the Giants, Tynes has
made 13 of 17 field goal attempts (76.5%)
and all 20 of his extra point tries – all Giants
postseason records.
- Tynes also owns the Giants postseason
record with 59 points. Amani Toomer is 2nd
with 42.
- With both Kansas City and the Giants,
Tynes kicked at least one field goal in 15 consecutive
games. With the Chiefs, the streak
began at Denver (12/19/04) and ended vs.
Denver (12/4/05). With the Giants, he kicked
a field goal in each of the 1st 15 games of
the 2009 season, beginning vs. Washington
(9/13) and ending at Minnesota (1/3). He
enters the 2012 season with at least 1 field
goal in 13 consecutive games…Tynes has
scored at least 100 points in each full season
of his career: 109 in 2004 and 2007, a careerhigh
126 in 2009, 125 in 2005, 107 in 2006
and 100 in 2010, 2011 and 2012…Eighty
eight of his 673 career kickoffs (12.9%) have
resulted in touchbacks.
2012 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS:
- Went one for two in field goal attempts
vs. New Orleans (12/9)...Made his 39-yard
attempt and missed a 36-yard attempt...
Went seven for seven on extra points.
- Connected on three of four field goal
attempts at Washington (12/3)...His lone
miss, from 43 yards, sailed wide left...Also
went one for one on extra points.
- Went one for one in field goal attempts
(43-yarder) vs. Green Bay (11/25)...Also
made 5 of 5 PAT attempts.
- Went 2 for 2 in field goal attempts (23
and 31 yards) at Cincinnati (11/11).
- Kicked two field goals (from 50 and 23
yards; he was also short on a 51-yard try) vs.
Pittsburgh (11/4)...Went 2 for 2 for PATs.
- Kicked a career-high tying five field goals