Exit Meeting: K Chris Boswell
Experience: 11 Years
Coming off a down season, is Chris Boswell in line to once again become the highest-paid kicker in the NFL this offseason? He is going into the final year of his contract, and we already know he wants an extension. He reportedly wanted one last year, but teams don’t sign kickers to early extensions—they’re kickers, after all.
Just a year prior, Chris Boswell had one of the great seasons by a kicker, perhaps in NFL history. He earned first-team All-Pro honors for the first time and connected on 13 of 15 field goal attempts from 50-plus yards. Overall, he made good on 41-of-44, leading the NFL in converted attempts. He also set franchise records for made field goals and points scored.
With Aaron Rodgers at quarterback, Boswell didn’t have to attempt as many field goals. After 44 attempts in 2025, he attempted just 32 last season. He made 27 of them, going 9-for-11 from 50-plus yards. Poor field conditions at Acrisure Stadium resulted in one miss. He also missed an extra point attempt due to a block.
Between 2019 and 2024, Chris Boswell made at least 90 percent of his field goal attempts in five out of six seasons. While he only made 84.4 percent last year, it wasn’t a true “down year” as he has had before. In 2022, for example, he really struggled, going 20-for-28. Even earlier, in 2018, he went 13-for-20 and nearly lost his job. And that was just one year after making the Pro Bowl for the first time.
Despite some misses last season, however, Boswell remains unwavering. He went 2-for-2 in the playoffs and has an unblemished postseason record, going 19-for-19 on field goals. Yet he somehow has two missed extra points on 21 tries.
The Steelers signed Boswell to a four-year, $20 million extension in 2022, averaging $5 million per year. At the time, it tied Justin Tucker for the largest kicker contract in NFL history in APY. Since then, 10 kickers have signed more lucrative deals, with two north of $6 million per year. The new high-water mark belongs to the Chiefs’ Harrison Butker at $6.4 million. Will Boswell and the Steelers top that number?
The Pittsburgh Steelers find themselves licking their wounds after yetanother early playoff exit. This is a repeated pattern for the organization, but with major change coming. As the Steelers conduct their own exit meetings, we willgo down the roster conducting our own. Who should stay, and who should go, and how? Who should expect a bigger role next season, and who might deserve a new contract? The resignation of Mike Tomlin makes those questions much more difficult to answer, but much more important. We’ll explore those questions and more in these articles, part of an annual series.
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