{"id":486021,"date":"2024-08-06T06:55:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T10:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=486021"},"modified":"2024-08-06T04:58:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T08:58:15","slug":"kansas-city-makes-butker-leagues-top-paid-kicker","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/kansas-city-makes-butker-leagues-top-paid-kicker\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City makes Butker League\u2019s top-paid kicker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Chiefs inked Harrison Butker to a deal extension, making him the National Football League\u2019s highest-paid kicker.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Chiefs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Chiefs<\/a> and star kicker Harrison Butker have agreed to terms on a contract extension to make him the highest-paid kicker in the NFL, sources say. Butler represented himself in the deal. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lyXRFxZYWD\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/lyXRFxZYWD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1820544394115834352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The extension is for 4 years and almost 26 million dollars, with almost 18 million dollars guaranteed. At almost 6.5 million dollars per season in the new contract, Harrison will earn more than the previously highest-paid kickers, the Ravens\u2019 Turcker and Philly\u2019s Jake Elliott, who both average 6 million dollars per campaign with their deals.<\/p>\n<p>The contract keeps Harrison in Kansas City through the 2028 campaign. The kicker is scheduled to make almost 4 million dollars in the final campaign of the 5-year deal he inked with Kansas City 5 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Harrison, who represented and negotiated the contract himself, announced on social media that he successfully secured the extension.<\/p>\n<p>His career FG % is 89.1, which is 2<sup>nd<\/sup> all-time behind Tucker at 90.2. In the past campaign, Harrison was 33-of-35 on FGs for 94.3%. Butker finished 6-of-6 from 50 yards and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Chiefs inked Harrison Butker to a deal extension, making him the National Football League\u2019s highest-paid kicker. The #Chiefs and star [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":486022,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19256,16919,17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[22958,18206,17873],"acf":{"announce":"The Chiefs made Harrison the NFL's top-paid kicker.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486023,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486021\/revisions\/486023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486021"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=486021"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=486021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}