Kansas City plays at Baltimore on Sunday, with a Super Bowl berth on the line. If it’s a close game, with a field goal deciding it at the end, both teams will be confident sending out their kicker.
Both Justin Tucker and Harrison Butker have plenty of experience. Both have played in lots of big games. Both have played in inclement weather. And both have been really good.
Tucker is generally regarded as the best to ever play the position, and Butker isn’t far behind.
Only two kickers in league history, in fact, have made over 89 percent of their career field goals (with at least 100 attempts) and these are them. Both teams would be very confident sending out Tucker or Butker to attempt a game-deciding field goal on Sunday.
| CAREER FIELD GOAL ACCURACY (active players) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Player | FG | FGA | Pct |
| 1. | Justin Tucker | 395 | 438 | 90.2% |
| 2. | Harrison Butker | 197 | 221 | 89.1% |
| 3. | Eddy Pineiro | 89 | 100 | 89.0% |
| 4. | Younghoe Koo | 154 | 174 | 88.5% |
| 5. | Daniel Carlson | 169 | 192 | 88.0% |
| 6. | Chris Boswell | 231 | 265 | 87.2% |
| 7. | Ka'imi Fairbairn | 175 | 201 | 87.1% |
| 8. | Jake Elliott | 168 | 195 | 86.2% |
| 9. | Matt Gay | 134 | 156 | 85.9% |
| 10. | Dustin Hopkins | 223 | 260 | 85.8% |
| 11. | Cairo Santos | 220 | 257 | 85.6% |
| 12. | Jason Myers | 230 | 269 | 85.5% |
| 13. | Wil Lutz | 195 | 229 | 85.2% |
| 14. | Tyler Bass | 107 | 126 | 84.9% |
| 15. | Nick Folk | 382 | 456 | 83.8% |
| 16. | Graham Gano | 324 | 387 | 83.7% |
| 17. | Randy Bullock | 216 | 259 | 83.4% |
| 18. | Matt Prater | 401 | 481 | 83.4% |
| 19. | Jason Sanders | 150 | 180 | 83.3% |
| 20. | Greg Zuerlein | 329 | 396 | 83.1% |
| 21. | Chase McLaughlin | 96 | 116 | 82.8% |
| 22. | Greg Joseph | 100 | 121 | 82.6% |
| 23. | Michael Badgley | 98 | 119 | 82.4% |
| 24. | Joey Slye | 121 | 147 | 82.3% |
| 25. | Brandon McManus | 253 | 311 | 81.4% |
| 26. | Mason Crosby | 400 | 492 | 81.3% |
| 27. | Brett Maher | 111 | 139 | 79.9% |
—Ian Allan