The Kansas City Chiefs signed kicker Harrison Butker to a four-year extension that will make him the highest-paid kicker in the NFL, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter Monday.
Butker’s $25.6 million extension reportedly includes $17.75 million guaranteed. At $6.4 million a season, it makes him the highest-paid at his position on a per-year basis, topping Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker’s $6 million per season.
“There’s no place I’d rather be than with the Chiefs, excited to finalize a 4 year extension. To the Heights!” Butker wrote on social media Monday.
Butker, 29, negotiated the deal on his own without the help of agents or lawyers, Schefter reported.
Butker set the Super Bowl record for longest field goal during the Chiefs’ 25-22 overtime win over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII earlier this year. Butker’s 57-yard field goal with 5:01 left in the third quarter supplanted the previous record that had been set just one quarter earlier by 49ers rookie Jake Moody, who kicked a 55-yarder to give San Francisco an early 3-0 lead.
Originally drafted out of Georgia Tech by the Carolina Panthers in the seventh round of the 2017 NFL Draft, Butker has played all seven of his NFL seasons with the Chiefs.
In 107 career games, he has connected on 89.1 percent of his field-goal attempts and 94.5 percent of his point-after tries.
He’s kicked field goals of 53 yards or longer in all seven seasons, with a 62-yarder in 2022.
–Field Level Media
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