Drafting Kickers

[Stuart Smith]

Is it possible that teams could look at todays results in the NFL and realize it is worth a draft choice to select a Field Goal Kicker? It seems that most teams try to use recycled well traveled kickers with mixed results. 

[Eazy-E]

Most collegiate kickers are terrible. Everyone once in a while one or two will actually get drafted. Like anything else in the draft, whether they succeed or not is a total crap shoot. 

Roberto Aguayo was drafted in the second round and was god awful.

The Panthers drafted Harrison Butker in the seventh round and he performed better than Graham Gano in camp/preseason. Since this team has always been managed by a bunch of morons, They decided to keep Gano over Butker because veteran. Then they decided waste cap space with a fat contract for Gano who got injured and then released about a year and a half into a 4 year contract all while Butker became one of the best kickers in the league for Kansas City while on a rookie seventh rounder's salary.

And people wonder why this Franchise sucks.

 

[Bakerh8er69]

We need to trade Baker for a kicker while he still has value…

[Castavar]

7 hours ago, Eazy-E said:

Most collegiate kickers are terrible. Everyone once in a while one or two will actually get drafted. Like anything else in the draft, whether they succeed or not is a total crap shoot. 

Roberto Aguayo was drafted in the second round and was god awful.

The Panthers drafted Harrison Butker in the seventh round and he performed better than Graham Gano in camp/preseason. Since this team has always been managed by a bunch of morons, They decided to keep Gano over Butker because veteran. Then they decided waste cap space with a fat contract for Gano who got injured and then released about a year and a half into a 4 year contract all while Butker became one of the best kickers in the league for Kansas City while on a rookie seventh rounder's salary.

And people wonder why this Franchise sucks.

 

Stop bro, you're making me really sad lol

I'm being serious here, I have no doubt in my mind this franchise would be better off with a bunch of huddlers running the show than the clowns we've had throughout the years. We've been right more times than not. Butker incident, not wanting Teddy, not wanting Darnold, saying we should have let Cam play out his contract, saying we should have fired Rhule last year, saying we should have gotten Eberflus or Daboll, saying we should have shored up our run defense in the offseason when it was blatantly obvious it was a HUGE weakness, saying not to draft a run stuffing DT in the top 10, saying to start Bozeman over Eflein, etc.

When your average fanbase is right more times than your front office, it is doomed to fail. We are officially the bottom dwellers of the NFL.

Edited September 12, 2022 by Castavar

[jayboogieman]

I've always felt it made sense to draft a kicker with a mid or late round pick if there is a good prospect coming out of college because a good kicker is often a franchise's scoring leader.

[MillionDollarCam]

Feels like there’s maybe, and that’s a big maybe, one elite kicker in the draft every year.

This past year it was York; McPherson before that (though he struggled yesterday), think the next big time guy out of college is Mevis from Mizzou.

[Mr. Scot]

I'd happily have used a 2017 7th rounder for one