The Kansas City Chiefs are locking down Super Bowl-winning kicker Harrison Butker for the long haul.
The Chiefs and Butker have agreed to terms on a four-year, $25.6 million contract extension, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported, per sources informed of the deal. Butker's new deal includes $17.8 million in guaranteed money, per Rapoport.
The pact makes the 29-year-old the highest-paid kicker in the NFL, passing Jake Elliott and Justin Tucker's $6 million-per-year average.
Butker has been a stabilizing weapon since joining the Chiefs in 2017. He's aided all three of K.C.'s Lombardi-lifting victories since 2020, including nailing a Super Bowl record-setting 57-yarder in the February win over San Francisco.
In seven seasons with the Chiefs, Butker has made 89.1% of his field goal attempts and 94.5% of his point-after tries. His career-long of 62 yards came in 2022. In 19 postseason games, he's hit 88.9% of 36 field goal attempts and 95.4% of 65 PATs.
Earlier this offseason, Butker created waves with a controversial commencement speech at Benedictine College, a private Catholic liberal arts school in Kansas. Butker, who has made his conservative beliefs apparent, said most of the women graduating were probably more excited about getting married and having children. He also attacked Pride Month and President Joe Biden's stance on abortion.
After the speech, Chief coach Andy Reid downplayed the controversy, saying, in part, "we all respect each other's opinions and not necessarily do we go by those, but we respect everybody to have a voice."
