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BetOnline has your 2021 Super Bowl Kickoff and Touchback odds.
Fast Facts: 2016 Kickoffs/Touchbacks Trends:
What percentage of kickoffs are touchbacks?
The NFL reduced kickoff returns by 1.8 percentage points in 2016, a modest impact for its one-year rule experiment to improve player safety by encouraging more touchbacks. Teams returned 39.3 percent of kickoffs during the just-completed regular season, down from 41.1 in 2015, according to ESPN Stats & Information.
