Player file
Daniel Carlson
K Kicker · official depth K1 · Auburn · #48 · PRO
6' 5" · 222 lbs · ESPN roster listing (measurement date not published)
age 31 · born 1995-01-23 · corroborated by nflverse players.csv · as of 2026-09-20
NO · active
Formal report: Practice: not reported · Game designation not reported. Check next report · Plan coverage
Inspect file assembly
lifecycle: veteran — 9 NFL regular-season line(s) 2018–2026 on the seasonal well (nflverse stats_player_reg) · card built 2026-09-20
#26 field-goal % · 1 g2026where he ranks at Field-goal % among 28 qualified at the position · 2026 · nflverse player statistics 2026 · 2026-09-20
Inspect season and contract figures
FG 4/5 · PAT 4/42026 K
nflverse player statistics regular season 2026 (retrieved) · 2026-09-21T12:41:10.233Z2026Signed through
APY $1,487,500 · cap hit $1,262,500
Over The Cap · 2026-09-20Season stats
- 2026 · NO · K · 2 counting-stat game rows; total appearances unresolvedFG 4/5 · PAT 4/4nflverse player statistics regular season 2026 (retrieved) · 2026-09-21T12:41:10.233Z
Provider-reported season totals may lag game-box statistics and later corrections. Counting-stat game rows do not establish total appearances or starts.
Contract
- Signed through2026Over The Cap · 2026-09-20
- APY$1,487,500Over The Cap · 2026-09-09
- Cap hit$1,262,500Over The Cap · 2026-09-20
- Free agency2027 · UFAOver The Cap · 2026-09-20
Not sourced yet · term / APY / current cap number only; guarantees, bonuses, options and exit consequences are not on a provisioned source (unknown)
NFL by year
- 2026 · NO · K · 2 counting-stat game rows; total appearances unresolvedFG 4/5 · PAT 4/4
- 2025 · LV · K · 17 counting-stat game rows; total appearances unresolvedFG 22/27 · PAT 21/22
- 2024 · LV · K · 17 counting-stat game rows; total appearances unresolvedFG 34/40 · PAT 23/25
- 2023 · LV · K · 17 counting-stat game rows; total appearances unresolvedFG 26/30 · PAT 32/32
- 2022 · LV · K · 17 counting-stat game rows; total appearances unresolvedFG 34/37 · PAT 35/36
- 2021 · LV · K · 17 counting-stat game rows; total appearances unresolvedFG 40/43 · PAT 30/33
- 2020 · LV · K · 16 counting-stat game rows; total appearances unresolvedFG 33/35 · PAT 45/47
- 2019 · LV · K · 16 counting-stat game rows; total appearances unresolvedFG 19/26 · PAT 34/36
- 2018 · LV · K · 12 counting-stat game rows; total appearances unresolvedFG 17/21 · PAT 24/24
Stack-up lives on leaders. Not a rank invented on this file.
Official games
- Preseason week 3 · 2026-08-28 · NO at DALIn the official book without an individual stat line.Open the book · NFL Game Summary · 2026-08-29
- Week 1 · 2026-09-13 · NO at DETIn the official book without an individual stat line.Open the book · NFL Game Summary · 2026-09-13
Not sourced yet · snaps are not printed in the NFL Game Summary and no snap-count source is provisioned — participation above is the book's own lists
NFL Game Summary · 2026-08-29as of 2026-09-13College by year
- 2017 · Auburn · kicking23/31 FG · 57 XPCollegeFootballData player season stats · 2026-08-14
- 2016 · Auburn · kicking28/32 FG · 44 XPCollegeFootballData player season stats · 2026-08-14
- 2015 · Auburn · kicking23/27 FG · 40 XPCollegeFootballData player season stats · 2026-08-14
- 2014 · Auburn · kicking18/23 FG · 57 XPCollegeFootballData player season stats · 2026-08-14
Combine / pro day
- 2018 Combine · K · Auburn · 6-5 · 213 lb
Searched — none · in the combine table for this session with no drill value — did not participate or not recorded; the table does not say which
drafted 2018 · round 5 · Minnesota Vikings
Not sourced yet · pro day: pro-day results are not on any provisioned source
a blank drill is one the nflverse combine table did not record — it carries no did-not-participate reason, so the reason is not on file
Injuries
Source not provisioned · no reserve/injury filing for this name in official transaction feeds on disk 2026-01-01 → 2026-09-19 (32 clubs: 31 club-published and 1 from the nfl.com league ledger as the approved equivalent (DAL); 1966 rows; no club feed missing) and no weekly injury-report row (30 of 32 clubs have a posted report as of 2026-09-20T15:46:37.182Z). Pre-window history is not on a provisioned source. Next: connect a source that covers this field. (asOf 2026-09-20)
Suspensions / discipline
Not sourced yet · no discipline records on file · search bound: recorded search of official transaction feeds on disk 2026-01-01 → 2026-09-19 (32 clubs: 31 club-published and 1 from the nfl.com league ledger as the approved equivalent (DAL); 1966 rows; no club feed missing) for /\bsuspend|reserve\s*\/\s*suspended|commissioner(?:'s)?\s+exempt|exempt\s*\/\s*commissioner/i: 5 filings. The league discipline ledger is not a provisioned source, so absence here is a bounded search, not a true negative. (asOf 2026-09-20)
Transactions
- 2026-08-24 · NOSigned K Daniel Carlson .
window 2026-01-01 → 2026-09-19
filings in official transaction feeds on disk 2026-01-01 → 2026-09-19 (32 clubs: 31 club-published and 1 from the nfl.com league ledger as the approved equivalent (DAL); 1966 rows; no club feed missing); pre-window movement is not on a provisioned source
Awards
0× Pro Bowl · 1× All-Pro · 3 seasons started · career through 2026
nflverse draft_picks (PFR career honors counts) · 2026-09-20career COUNTS as of the fetch (PFR via nflverse), not dated honors; per-season dates are unknown unless a curated dated row is present