Over the past three seasons, while Justin Tucker of the Baltimore Ravens has been the AFC Pro Bowl kicker annually, Daniel Carlson of the Las Vegas Raiders has scored more points than any other player in the NFL.

While Carlson got passed over for the Pro Bowl honor each year, his good work still culminated in his selection as the first-team All-Pro kicker for the 2022 season.

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While scoring 431 points in the past three seasons, Carlson also has accumulated the most field goals in the NFL with 107, and among the 21 kickers who have scored at least 300 points since 2020, his success rate of 93 percent on field-goal attempts also is the best in the league. That’s even though Carlson set an NFL record in 2022 by making 11 field goals of at least 50 yards.

But the former Auburn standout plans to be better in 2023 than he ever has been.

“There’s always room for improvement,” Carlson said as Las Vegas’ offseason program wound down. “I missed kicks last year. There’s room for improvement in a lot of different areas, so just like any other player, each day at practice, each day in the offseason, I’m trying to get better. Especially in the offseason, I get the chance to kick more because I don’t have be to so fresh for a game coming up, so I think this is a great time for me to push myself, get a lot of reps whether it be with (long snapper) Jacob (Bobenmoyer) or just myself figuring out my muscle memory and technique and, hopefully, just continuing to improve on something I hopefully have been doing well the last few years.

“But like I said, the goal is always perfection. I might not ever get there, but that’s always going to be the goal each season.”

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Bobenmoyer will be a change for Carlson this season. Since he came to the Raiders during the 2018 season, Carlson had worked with Trent Sieg as the long snapper. But Sieg is now with the Dallas Cowboys. Bobenmoyer had served as the Denver Broncos’ long snapper the previous three seasons.

“Once he got into town, we were out on a high school field practicing together just on our own, starting to try to build that trust, relationship that will hopefully carry over onto the field on Sundays,” Carlson said. “… Carrying over the off-the-field relationship to the on-the-field relationship and having that trust when we’re out there for big moments, I think that’s the biggest thing. And so right now it’s just about getting reps, continuing to get reps and get comfortable and get the timing with each other.

“I’m excited for what’s ahead. Hopefully, me and (punter) AJ (Cole) continue to do a great job, produce for the team and, hopefully, get some wins here.”

Carlson has a rule change to deal with this season, too.

For the 2023 season, the NFL will allow fair catches on kickoffs inside the 25-yard line that will result in the football being placed at the receiving team’s 25-yard line. According to the NFL, the objective is to lessen the concussion risk on kickoffs.

“They definitely didn’t ask me about it when they made that rule,” Carlson said. “But it’s part of the league, ever-evolving, and if it does save injuries, that’s great. Hopefully, that is the case if we’re going to stick with this rule, and we’ll just have to adjust along with all the other teams in the league in terms of trying to figure out ways to take advantage of the new rules just like offense, defense does whenever rule changes happen with them. Player safety’s huge, but obviously you want to be able to perform at the highest level and not be limited by rules, and so we’re trying to figure out how to do that now and roll with the punches.”

The Raiders allowed an average of 19.4 yards per kickoff return during the 2022 season, the second-lowest in the league.

“Not only for field position but also just for momentum,” Carlson said, “after a score to go pin someone down inside the 20, I think that’s huge play for a team to set their defense up, to get the guys fired up, and so we’ll see kind of how much that shifts. I hope there aren’t too many fair catches, and guys are willing to man up and play football back there, and, hopefully, we can kick it to them. We’ll see different options of what we can do this season and as we go forward. It will be a learning curve just like everybody else in the league, so, hopefully, we can take advantage of that as Raiders.”

The Las Vegas rookies will report to training camp at the Intermountain Health Performance Center in Henderson, Nevada, on July 20, with the veterans coming in on July 25.

The Raiders kick off their three-game preseason schedule on Aug. 13 against the visiting San Francisco 49ers.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.