Kansas City Chiefs place kicker Harrison Butker (7) makes a field goal from the hold of Kansas City Chiefs punter Matt Araiza (14) during the third quarter against the Houston Texans at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium.
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The Kansas City Chiefs had a lot to take away from their second preseason game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but nothing stood out more than Harrison Butker's 69-yard field goal. It shouldn't have been a surprise that a kicker of Butker's caliber was able to get through the uprights, but it's also not something you see every day.
Now, everybody will be waiting to see if any other kicker around the league can match what Butker did. Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated thinks that the NFL could even consider making a change to the goal post at this point to make things more challenging.
“Harrison Butker’s 69-yard field goal was wild—it did look like it might’ve been good from 75. It also makes you wonder if we’re getting close to a point where the NFL looks at tightening the goalposts or something to make field goals more challenging. I’d be against that because I hate punishing people for being good at something,” Breer wrote.
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It would be doing kickers a disservice if they tightened the goalposts just because Butker hit a deep one in the preseason. It would be a different story if kickers all over the league were nailing 60+ yard field goals with ease, but some are still losing their jobs because they can't get one from 4o yards to go in.
Butker is also one of the better kickers in the league, so it makes sense why he felt comfortable nailing it.
It seems unlikely that the NFL would step in and make a change like that, but you can't put anything past them. The best thing to come from the kick is to now see if there are more attempts from that far when the season actually starts.