Harrison Butker of the Kansas City Chiefs arrives to the stadium prior to an NFL football game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Arrowhead Stadium on October 18, 2026 in Kansas City, Missouri.
Harrison Butker has missed more kicks than any kicker in the NFL going back to the 2025 season. | Photo by Brooke Sutton/Getty Images
Sometime this week, Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker might become former Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker. That’s how bad things have gotten for the one-time Super Bowl hero.
With his miss yesterday, Butker is now the worst kicker in the NFL among players with at least 10 attempts. He is 12 for 19 (63%), a terrible percentage for any kicker, let alone one who made 94% of his kicks in 2023, including 5 for 5 from beyond 50 yards, compared to 2 for 8 from that range this season. His 17 missed field goals going back to 2025 are the worst in the NFL.
The nadir on Sunday came when Butker missed a 56-yard attempt at the end of the first half against the New York Jets. He got a reprieve when the Jets jumped offsides, giving him a second chance from 51 yards. He missed that too (wide right, which is fitting). Chiefs fans booed him lustily. Luckily for the Chiefs, they won 35-12, so the miss was inconsequential.
Harrison Butker misses back-to-back attempts in similar fashion following a penalty.
Chiefs fans boo loudly as they head to halftime pic.twitter.com/F1BfHbIiPT
— NFL on CBS 🏈 (@NFLonCBS) November 8, 2026
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“I’m booing myself sometimes,” Butker said after the game. “People are passionate, the fans are passionate. They want to win games. They want me to make kicks. I want to make kicks. It’s part of it. That’s what you sign up for and I’ve got to be better.”
Kansas City coach Andy Reid was noncommittal on Butker’s future. “With Butker, I haven’t made any decisions yet,” Reid said. “I’m going to evaluate everything and go forward from there. Again, I haven’t decided on reps during practice, I haven’t done any of that right now. Just going through it, evaluating. And we’ll go from there.”
If you are wondering why a gay sports website cares about a kicker, it’s because Butker is not just any kicker. In 2024, during a college commencement speech, he was critical of LGBTQ rights, trans people and urged women to stay home while their husbands worked. His speech insulted women and LGBTQ people and they haven’t forgotten.
Since that talk, Butker became increasingly very political and partisan at the same time his kicking skills deteriorated. Are the two related? Who knows, but schaedenfreued is a wonderful thing and has led to meme after meme on social media.
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every time harrison butker misses a field goal a woman is elected to public office https://t.co/BWcFcsNd7C
— alex brasky (@alexbrasky) November 8, 2026
Harrison Butker talked all that weird “women should stick to the kitchen and having babies” shit and now he’s gonna have plenty of time to make sandwiches for his kids. Karma is a bitch. pic.twitter.com/6wfSbNwxUw
— bella (@dollyqwe1) November 8, 2026
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