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Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker is reportedly expected to miss "three to four weeks" and be placed on injured reserve due to a knee injury, sources with knowledge of the situation confirmed to NFL Network's Tom Pelissero on Thursday (November 14).
The Chiefs reportedly signed Spencer Shrader off the New York Jets' practice squad to replace the injured Butker, according to Pelissero.
"Sources: #Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker is expected to miss 3-4 weeks and is likely headed to injured reserve with a left knee injury. Kansas City will have a new kicker Sunday at Buffalo," Pelissero wrote on his X account. "Harrison Butker will have the knee scoped to clean up his meniscus and should be back within a month. But for now, any game-winning kicks will come from the leg of Spencer Shrader."
Butker was drafted by the Carolina Panthers at No. 233 overall in the seventh-round of the 2017 NFL Draft, but was waived early in his rookie season and signed by the Chiefs off the Panthers' practice squad on September 26, 2017. The former Georgia Tech standout has emerged as one of the NFL's best kickers, kicking a game-winning field goal during Kansas City's Super Bowl LVII win against the Philadelphia Eagles, setting a career record for field goals in the Super Bowl (9) during his four appearances and making the longest field goal in Super Bowl history during the Chiefs' win against the San Francisco 49ers in February and leading the NFL in scoring during the 2019 regular season.
Butker has converted on 18 of 20 field goal attempts during the 2024 NFL season, with his only two misses coming from beyond 50 yards. The 29-year-old has an 89.21% career field goal conversion rate, which ranks third in NFL history.