Ravens Extend Justin Tucker

The NFL's best career field goal percentage of all time has been extended by the Baltimore Ravens. Justin Tucker gets the deal he deserves, the biggest kicker deal in the history of the NFL. Tucker gets a four-year, $23.05 million extension, including $12.5 million fully guaranteed in the first two years and an $8 million signing bonus.

NFL teams are starting to realize how important the kicker position is. The kicker can decide a game, just ask the Chicago Bears who lost in the first round of the playoffs with a missed field goal to send the Philadelphia Eagles to the second round. The NFL changed the extra point rule two years ago, from a 20-yard chip shot, to now a 33-yard kick. This has made extra points more intriguing. We saw the most extra point misses in the NFL in the past ten years, and it cost teams games. Tucker, who is arguably the best in the game missed an extra point that would have sent the Ravens to overtime against the Saints, even the best have felt the effects of the new rule.

Tucker has missed two extra points since high school, he never missed one in college at the University Of Tennessee. The last time Tucker missed a field goal (that wasn't blocked) from 50 yards or shorter was in 2015. After signing the extension Tucker said "I'm competing with myself. I'm competing with what I think I should be able to do. The bar that we have set here, expectations is of the utmost performance" at the Ravens press conference this afternoon. The Ravens bring a big asset to their special teams and locks him up until after the 2023 season. 

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