Most of the NFL's first-team players will get the night off when the league wraps up its preseason schedule with 16 games on Thursday.

That doesn't apply to specialists. Place-kickers and punters will do their usual jobs in the unusual surroundings annually presented by Week 4 of the preseason, where across the NFL, hundreds of players will seek to make a final statement on why they should be on the regular-season roster rather than let go by Saturday afternoon.

For Green Bay punter JK Scott, the Packers' preseason finale against the Kansas City Chiefs will give him another opportunity to zero in on consistency as the rookie approaches his first NFL season.

Scott left Alabama as the Crimson Tide's career leader for punts, punting yards and punting average and entered the NFL as a fifth-round pick of the Packers in April's draft.

In three preseason games, Scott has punted 14 times for a 43.3-yard average. Four of the punts have been returned for a total of 7 yards, two have been downed inside the opponent's 20-yard line and one resulted in a touchback.

Scott's first punt as a pro went for 31 yards and a fair catch at the Tennessee Titans' 21-yard line. He punted only one more time in his first preseason game, getting off a 52-yarder that resulted in a zero-yard return and pinned the Titans at their 13-yard line.

Scott's second preseason outing produced an unsatisfying performance. He averaged 40.6 yards on five punts. His longest effort -- a 49-yarder -- resulted in a touchback. His first punt of the game traveled only 29 yards and went out of bounds at the Pittsburgh Steelers' 39-yard line. He followed that with a 46-yarder that resulted in a fair catch at the Pittsburgh 14, but his last punt of the game was a 35-yarder that went out of bounds at the Steelers' 34.

In Friday's game against the Oakland Raiders, Scott punted seven times -- as many times as in the first two games combined -- and produced results more in line with what he'd shown on the training-camp practice field.

"What's interesting was (Green Bay quarterback) Aaron Rodgers came up to me and was like, 'Do your thing,'" Scott told Josh Tolentino of The Athletic. "He was telling me to just kick the ball how I know I can kick the ball and that everything will take care of itself. So that was pretty cool hearing from a guy like him."

Scott averaged 45.7 yards per punt, including a 61-yarder that was downed at the Oakland 20-yard line. He also had a 49-yard punt that resulted in a return of minus-3 yards. But his final punt went out of bounds at the Raiders' 32 after going 27 yards.

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"I felt pretty confident," Scott said after the game. "I'm keeping it simple. You've got to keep it simple. That's the thing, when you get complicated, you start to get robotic and get out of rhythm."

The Packers will kick off the regular season on Sept. 9 by renewing the NFL's most-played rivalry when the Chicago Bears come to Lambeau Field. NBC will televise the game at 7:30 p.m. CDT.

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