Harrison Butker is staying in Kansas Metropolis.
The kicker has signed a brand new four-year, $25.6m take care of the Chiefs that can tie him to the franchise by 2028, in line with a number of studies. Butker negotiated the deal himself with out a lawyer or agent, in line with ESPN.
The deal makes Butker the highest-paid kicker within the NFL, eclipsing the mark set by Baltimore’s Justin Tucker in 2022.
Butker, who made the game-winning discipline purpose in Kansas Metropolis’s Tremendous Bowl victory two years in the past, confirmed the deal on X, saying: “There’s no place I’d relatively be than with the Chiefs, excited to finalize a 4 yr extension. To the Heights!”
Butker has been a lights out performer for the Chiefs, changing 89.1% of his discipline objectives (197 for 221) in seven seasons with the franchise and making 70% p.c (28 for 40) of his efforts from past 50 yards. He’s been an important a part of the workforce’s deep playoff runs, making 32 of 36 discipline objectives (88.9%) and 62 of 65 further factors (95.4%) within the postseason on the best way to 3 Tremendous Bowl titles.
Butker’s profile has risen this offseason after his controversial graduation speech at Benedictine Faculty in Atchison, Kansas, the place he stated most girls receiving levels have been in all probability extra enthusiastic about getting married and having children; argued some Catholic leaders have been “pushing harmful gender ideologies on to the youth of America;” referred to a “lethal sin type of pleasure that has a month devoted to it” in an indirect reference to Delight month; and took intention at President Joe Biden’s insurance policies, together with his condemnation of the supreme courtroom’s reversal of the 1973 Roe v Wade determination.
The three-time Tremendous Bowl champion stated that he has no regrets about expressing his beliefs and that he has obtained assist in addition to “a surprising degree of hate” from others after the feedback.
Patrick Mahomes, Kansas Metropolis’s star quarterback, who’s broadly acknowledged as the most effective participant within the NFL, stated he disagreed with Butker’s feedback however defended his teammates character.
“There’s sure issues that he stated that I don’t essentially agree with, however I perceive the individual that he’s and he’s making an attempt to do no matter he can to steer folks in the appropriate path,” Mahomes stated in Might.
Within the fallout, Butker’s jersey grew to become one of many highest-selling jerseys within the league.
Having tied down their kicker, the Chiefs will now flip their consideration to pursuing a historic Tremendous Bowl three-peat.
