:Scott Bentley

{{Short description|American football player (born 1974)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Scott Bentley

| image =

| caption =

| position = Placekicker

| number = 3, 9, 1

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1974|4|10}}

| birth_place = Dallas, Texas, U.S.

| death_date =

| undraftedyear = 1997

| high_school = Aurora (CO) Overland

| college = Florida State

| pastteams =

• Arizona Cardinals (1997)*
• Denver Broncos ({{NFL Year|1997}})
• Atlanta Falcons ({{NFL Year|1997}})
• Denver Broncos ({{NFL Year|1998}})*
• Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1999)*
• Baltimore Ravens (1999)*
• Kansas City Chiefs ({{NFL Year|1999}})
• Denver Broncos (2000)*
• Washington Redskins ({{NFL Year|2000}})
• Berlin Thunder ({{BER season|2001}})

| statlabel1 = Field goals

| statvalue1 = 3 / 4

| statlabel2 = Field goal %

| statvalue2 = 75.0

| statlabel3 = Extra points

| statvalue3 = 4 / 4

| highlights =

• National champion (1993)

| pfr = B/bentlsco01

}}

Scott L. Bentley (born April 10, 1974) is a former American football placekicker. He played in the National Football League (NFL) for parts of four seasons with the Atlanta Falcons, the Denver Broncos, the Kansas City Chiefs, and the Washington Redskins. He was also a member of the 2001 World Bowl Champion Berlin Thunder of NFL Europa. He attended and graduated from Florida State University and Overland High School in Aurora, Colorado.

Bentley kicked the game-winning field goal as Bobby Bowden's Florida State Seminoles won their first national title, beating Nebraska, 18–16, in the 1994 Orange Bowl.

Bentley was on the cover of Sports Illustrated{{'}}s College Football Preview in 1993, later to be victimized by the "Cover Jinx" after missing seven extra point attempts in the season's first five games.

After his NFL career, Bentley moved back to Colorado and works as a BDC Manager and is an avid softball player.{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&page=dash0813&sportCat=ncf |title=Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow |publisher=ESPN |date=November 25, 2008 |first=Pat |last=Forde |access-date=July 16, 2012 }}