When the Buffalo Bills hired Heath Farwell as their special teams coordinator before the 2019 season, they did so to improve a special teams unit that had fallen to 31st in the NFL in 2018.
Safe to say, the move has paid off, as for the second straight season, Buffalo’s special teams cracked the top ten of columnist Rick Gosselin’s annual NFL special teams rankings.
The rankings are based on 22 different kicking-game categories, including kickoff and punt returns, kickoff and punt coverage, punting and net punting average, the number of punts kicked inside the 20, takeaways, giveaways, and penalties committed.