good news:Three’s Company in Packers’ Kicking Competition again
With OTAs approaching, the Green Bay Packers already have three kickers on their roster. “It might be six,” Rich Bisaccia stated about the start of training camp.
GREEN BAY, Wis. – The Green Bay Packers have three kickers on their roster. Generally, three’s a crowd. But, when it comes to determining who will be the team’s kicker for the 2024 season, three might only be a starting point.
“I don’t know the answer to that,” special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia said on Thursday when asked if the team will take three kickers into training camp. “It might be those three. It might be three other ones. I don’t know. It might be six.”
The current kicker depth chart, which consists of incumbent Anders Carlson, veteran addition Greg Joseph and rookie Jack Podlesny, stands in stark contrast to last year, when the Packers drafted Carlson in the sixth round and never brought in a challenger through good times or bad.
Carlson never broke through last season’s funk, when he missed a kick in 10 of his final 12 games, including a critical field goal in the playoff loss at San Francisco. So, general manager Brian Gutekunst has doubled- and tripled-down on getting the position solved.
“We’re appreciative of Brian getting it to the point where it’s at right now, having a three-man competition,” Bisaccia continued. “We’ll see how long we can keep that going. There’s some things going on in a bunch of different leagues, so we’re going to keep investigating to try to end up with the best player we possibly can.”
