You can pretty much always start an argument by declaring someone the greatest of all time, but the case for Justin Tucker, a place-kicker for the Baltimore Ravens, is becoming hard to dispute. One week after his 66-yard boink set the distance record, he broke another by making his 300th field goal in fewer games than anyone in history. Tucker also holds the N.F.L. record for accuracy. Since his rookie year in 2012, he has made 91.1 percent of his field-goal attempts, and over the past decade, he has scored an average of 136 points per year — which is more than any other player, in any position, ever. When the Ravens announced last month that Tucker’s contract would be extended through 2027, precisely no one was surprised that his $24 million deal was the largest ever given to a kicker. Unlike a quarterback — reading the coverage, searching for targets, scrambling to avoid a Watt brother — the place-kicker has nothing to gain by watching the field. His job is not to anticipate the opposition or back up his teammates. It is to enter a kind of trance, as if he were the last man on earth, and perform a complex choreography of his own. And the confidence, persistence, and all-out obsession required to play the least understood position on the field have made Justin Tucker the greatest kicker in NFL history. Photographs by @philipmontgomery.