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Chiefs Sign Ex-Steelers Kicker after Another injury
The Kansas City Chiefs will be leaning on former Pittsburgh Steelers kicker Matthew Wright for the foreseeable future.
The Chiefs promoted Wright from their practice squad to their active roster on Wednesday, their third full-time kicker of the 2024 season.
Regular kicker Harrison Butker, the most accurate kicker in NFL history, has been on the injured reserve list since Nov. 14 after suffering a knee injury in practice. The Chiefs first replaced him with rookie Spencer Shrader, who they signed off the New York Jets’ practice squad. Shrader played two games before he suffered a hamstring injury himself.
Wright kicked in Kansas City’s Black Friday win over the Las Vegas Raiders, making four of five field goals.The Chiefs placed Shrader on injured reserve on Wednesday, making room for Wright.
The 28-year-old is in his third stint with the Chiefs, but he got his NFL career started with the Steelers, joining the team as an undrafted free agent out of UCF in 2019. He spent most of the 2020 season on the Steelers’ practice squad, playing in three games.
He turned that opportunity into a full-time role with the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2021, playing in 14 games. But he was waived the following May and landed in Kansas City. Wright played two games for the Chiefs and then returned to Pittsburgh, where he subbed in for an injured Chris Boswell for four games.
After another brief stint on the Chiefs practice squad, Wright spent time with the Carolina Panthers, San Francisco 49ers, Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots in 2023, playing in one game for Carolina.
Wright signed with the Steelers this April and spent the entire offseason with the team before being released in August. He also spent one game with San Francisco this season before re-joining the Chiefs practice squad on Nov. 26.
The Steelers and Chiefs are scheduled to play each other at Acrisure Stadium on Dec. 25.
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