With a road game looming against the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, the injury bug keeps biting the Chiefs playmakers. On Thursday, the team announced Kicker Harrison Butker will be placed on injured reserve with a knee injury.
No team in the NFL has been hit with more injuries to its stars than the Kansas City Chiefs. The latest injury involves Kicker Harrison Butker, who was on the injury report earlier today with a knee injury. It appears that injury will put him on injured reserve, meaning he will miss the next four games for Kansas City.
Per Ian Rapport of NFL Network, he needs a minor procedure to trim his left knee meniscus. That could be why Butker shanked his final kick-off attempt against the Denver Broncos on Saturday. The Good news is that the injury is not to his kicking knee.
To take Butker’s spot on the roster, the Chiefs have signed Kicker Spencer Shrader from the New York Jets Practice Squad. The former Notre Dame kicker was highly successful with long field goals for the Fighting Irish, but he spent time with the New York Jets this season before being added to the Colts practice squad.
He walks into a high-pressure job in Kansas City, replacing Harrison Butker, the best in the NFL. Butker has made big kicks so many times this season, helping Kansas City to a 9-0 record. Special Teams Coach Dave Taub will have a short time to prepare him for Sunday’s big AFC game.
The Butker injury is just another hit this football team has to absorb in its quest to win the AFC West, the AFC, and Super Bowl LIX. The good news is that, from what we’ve been told, Butker should be back in four weeks.
That means he’ll miss the road games at Buffalo and Carolina, as well as two home games against the Las Vegas Raiders and Los Angeles Chargers.
