The Chiefs are sticking with Harrison Butker for now, even after another miss helped define a second straight loss.
Butker’s latest misfire came on a 54-yard field goal with almost two minutes left in Kansas City’s game against the Denver Broncos. The Chiefs still found the end zone right after, but the miss hung over a night that ended with another loss.
Even with Justin Tucker now on the practice squad, Andy Reid made it clear Butker would handle kicking duties in the next game against the New York Jets. Special teams coach Dave Toub backed that up and said his belief in Butker hasn’t disappeared.
“My confidence level was good because he made four kicks; he nailed them,” Toub said. “The extra points and the field goal.
And we had good confidence in him. He makes these kicks.
Harrison Bucker makes a ball from the 36-yard line. He makes that kick.
#Chiefs ST Coordinator Dave Toub remains confident in K Harrison Butker.
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He says, "You exhaust every possibility to get this guy right, and that's what we're doing right now." pic.twitter.com/jHavcZKZxf
Coach made the call. I was all in with it.
“Had he made it, we would be sitting here going, ‘Hey, Bucker's back.’ You know? It's a confidence thing.”
Toub said the staff is trying to help Butker work through the issue rather than move on from him immediately.
“You start with practice, you try to put them in those situations, you create hard kicks, you move them around where he's having trouble, and you work on that,” Toub said. “You talk to guys; we have Tucker here, who's an experienced guy.
You talk to other people out there. You exhaust every possibility to get this guy right, and that's what we're doing right now.
We're not just gonna pull the plug on him.”
What happens against the Jets will matter. If Butker keeps missing, Tucker could end up taking over as the Chiefs’ starting kicker.
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