Chicago Bears

Bears' Gould sets franchise record for FGs made in a single season

Published Jan. 4, 2016 12:53 p.m. ET

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With a 34-yarder against the Detroit Lions on Sunday, Chicago Bears kicker Robbie Gould set a franchise record with 33 successful field-goal attempts in 2015.

Via the Bears' official Twitter account:

With that kick, @RobbieGould09 has set a new single-season record for FGs made (33). #Bears #DETvsCHI
— Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) January 3, 2016

Gould one-upped his own franchise record of 32 made field goals, set in 2006. That was the Penn State product's second NFL season, which resulted in a Pro Bowl appearance and a first-team All-Pro bid.

The 34-year-old kicker missed six attempts this season for a success rate of 84.6 percent -- just a shade under his career-long rate of 85.4 percent. Gould made an impressive comeback from a 2014 campaign in which he appeared in only 12 games and made just nine of his 12 field-goal attempts (75 percent). His handling of the new, longer extra-point attempts was exactly the same (2014: 28-for-29; 2015: 28-for-29).

Gould has been kicking for the Bears since 2005, and he's under contract for two more years.