re: Is Daniel Carlson the best sec K of all time ?

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Uh. Maybe Billy Bennett. UGA.
At one time he held a handful of sec and ncaa records. May still hold them.

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With an average Daniel Carlson year this year, Carlson will pass both Jasper and Bennett.

UGA's Blair Walsh is the current SEC Career Leader in Points scored.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/conferences/sec/leaders/points-player-career.html

If Carlson achieves merely the average of his first 3 years at Auburn in 2017, he will score 116 points. That would give him a career total of 470 points which easily exceeds Walsh's career total of 412 and Bennett's of 409.

Currently, Carlson ranks 4th in career FG percentage with 83.13%, trailing Josh Jasper (83.93), Gary Wunderlich (83.93), and Jeff Chandler (83.75). Each of those kickers only attempted 56, 56, and 80 FGs in their careers (respectively). Carlson, in 3 years, has already attempted 83 and will likely have 110 attempts or more by the end of his career. So not only does Carlson kick more, I would also be willing to bet that his average attempt length is also longer than the 3 kickers who are slightly above him in average (though I can't find that data), which would have an effect on his FG% (even though his % is still less than a percentage point from being the best). BTW, Bennett ranks 9th on the career FG% list.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/conferences/sec/leaders/fg-pct-player-career.html

And, as mentioned above, Carlson also will likely have 110+ FGs made by the end of his career which easily exceeds the current leader, Bennett, with 87.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/conferences/sec/leaders/fgm-player-career.html

Additionally, Carlson on KO's regularly kicks the ball out of the endzone.

I don't think there's much question that, IF Carlson continues to have the kind of numbers that he has put up every year in his career in 2017, that he will end his college career as the best SEC kicker in its history.