Harrison Butker has said he is “excited to finalise” a contract extension with the Kansas City Chiefs which will reportedly make him the highest-paid kicker in the NFL.
Three-time Super Bowl champion Butker will receive $25.6 million with $17.75m guaranteed, according to ESPN sources – eclipsing the average of $6m a season earned by Baltimore Ravens’ Justin Tucker and Philadelphia Eagles’ Jake Elliott.
“There’s no place I’d rather be than with the Chiefs,” the 29-year-old said on social media. “Excited to finalise a four-year extension. To the Heights.”
There’s no place I’d rather be than with the Chiefs, excited to finalize a 4 year extension. To the Heights! pic.twitter.com/geMUZTaNmZ
— Harrison Butker (@buttkicker7) August 5, 2024
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Harrison Butker contract
The Chiefs had been scheduled to pay Butker almost $4m a season in the final year of the five-year contract he signed in 2019.
Their new deal is said to be worth $6.4m a season, with the outlet adding that Butker represented himself during the negotiations.
The terms make the former Carolina Panthers player the first kicker in NFL history to receive more than $6m a year.
Harrison Butker stats
Signed by the Chiefs after being cut by the Panthers in 2017, Butker has converted more than 89 per cent of his field goals to establish himself as one of the most accurate kickers in the NFL.
Those included the decisive 27-yard field goal in his team’s 38-35 Super Bowl win over the Philadelphia Eagles in 2023, delivered with eight seconds remaining.
An injury had sidelined Butker earlier in the season but he impressed again in 2023, including 11 field goals from 11 attempts in the play-offs.
Big leg Butker. pic.twitter.com/DEB4anghjK
— Kansas City Chiefs (@Chiefs) January 28, 2024
Two years earlier, an extraordinary effort from 52 yards gave Butker the record for the longest successful field goal in the Chiefs’ post-season history.
Butker has attracted controversy for comments he made about the LGBTQ+ community, Pride events and women, among other topics, during a commencement ceremony speech at Benedictine College in Kansas in May,
Some respondents called for the Chiefs to release Butker over the remarks, while Sarah Kate Ellis, the president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, alleged he had gone against the NFL’s “standards for respect, inclusion, and diversity across the League”.
