The Detroit Lions don’t have many competitions for starting jobs but kicker was supposed to be one of them. The team signed former Arkansas Razorbacks kicker Jake Bates, who most recently played ...

The NFL is filled with stories of perseverance, but few are as remarkable as Jake Bates’s journey. This young kicker for the Detroit Lions went from selling bricks in Houston to becoming the ...

Jake Bates set a new team record with 142 points in his first season as kicker. Jack Fox led the NFL ... effort getting downfield on coverage. The Lions are set here. Now, as displayed in last ...

Bates was scarcely used again Saturday, making a 28-yard field goal late in the fourth quarter to narrow the deficit to 45-31. The kicker had a highly successful rookie campaign with the Lions and ...