Seven months after Jason Myers capped a historic season by helping the Seahawks win Super Bowl LX, Seattle’s veteran kicker is suddenly carrying an uncomfortable question into the regular season.
Myers was perfect in February, drilling all five of his field goal attempts in the championship game and becoming the first player in NFL history to score 200 points in a season, counting the playoffs. But August told a very different story.
Over three preseason games, he hit only 4 of 9 kicks, going 2 for 5 on field goals and 2 for 4 on extra points. One of the misses was a 52-yard try that would have won the finale.
The overall damage was 11 points lost on kicks, tied for the fourth-most in a preseason since 2000, according to TruMedia. By expected points added, Myers cost Seattle 7.4 EPA, the eighth-worst mark in that span.
That kind of stretch has not pushed Seattle into full-blown alarm mode yet. But if it follows him into September, the temperature around the situation will rise fast.
Myers has earned a long leash. Since arriving in Seattle in 2019, he has converted more than 86.2 percent of his field goal attempts - 200 of 232 - across 117 regular-season games and made the Pro Bowl in 2022. He also had been rock-solid in the preseason before this August, going 29 of 33 over his previous six exhibition slates with the Seahawks.
This month, though, the misses came with extra visibility. Four sailed wide right and one was hooked badly left, putting unwanted attention on a Seattle special teams unit that was among the league’s best last season.
And Myers knows better than most that a bad preseason can matter.
Back in 2017 with the Jacksonville Jaguars, he went just 4 of 7 on field goals and 7 of 8 on extra points in four preseason games. After missing two field goals in a 10-point loss to the Los Angeles Rams in October, he was cut. He finished that season 11 of 15 on field goals and 15 of 17 on PATs in six games, then had to wait until 2018 to get another NFL roster spot.
He bounced back quickly with the New York Jets, making 33 of 36 field goals and earning Pro Bowl recognition. That 91.7 percent rate remains the third-best of his career and helped lead to a four-year, $15.5 million deal with Seattle in 2019.
There are examples of kickers shaking off ugly preseasons. Justin Tucker did it in 2018, when he made only 4 of 8 field goal attempts for the Baltimore Ravens in the preseason but followed that by hitting 35 of 39 in the regular season and earning first-team All-Pro honors for the third time.
Stephen Gostkowski had a rough preseason for the New England Patriots a year later, missing three field goals from 43 yards or shorter, then went 7 of 8 in the regular season before hip surgery ended his year. Matt Prater also survived a rough preseason with the Detroit Lions in 2018.
But the broader history is not kind. From 2000 to 2025, 18 kickers posted an EPA of minus-4.9 or worse on field goals and extra points in a preseason, per TruMedia.
Fourteen were cut or released within two months. Seven of those 14 never played another regular-season game.
Only six finished the regular season with positive EPA.
The usual preseason caveats do not help much here. Kickers are not dealing with watered-down schemes or weaker competition in the same way other positions do. The sample is small, but nine kicks is enough to make the numbers worth noticing.
For Myers, there is also the matter of where he is in his career. He is in his 12th NFL season and eighth with the Seahawks.
He has already proven his value in Seattle, where he passed Norm Johnson last season to become the franchise’s all-time leading scorer with 892 points. He has signed two four-year contracts with the Seahawks, including an extension that paid him $5.3 million annually, the second-highest figure in the NFL at the time, after his Pro Bowl 2022 season.
Now he enters a contract year with a fresh set of eyes on every swing of the leg.
That matters because the Seahawks may need him plenty. Their season opener on Sept. 9 is a Super Bowl rematch against the New England Patriots, and Myers will be called on often if the offense under first-year coordinator Brian Fleury takes some time to settle in. In two of the past three seasons, Myers has led the NFL in field goal attempts, with 42 in 2023 and 48 in 2025.
He was central to the second championship in franchise history. If Seattle wants to become the 10th team to repeat as Super Bowl winner, it will need Myers to look a lot more like the version that carried them to February glory than the one that showed up in August.
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