As our own Justis Mosqueda wrote yesterday, the Green Bay Packers have until Friday (that’s tomorrow as I sit down with my morning coffee to write this) to make a decision on kicker Brandon McManus. Without parroting the entire article here, I’ll just clarify that that is because McManus is due a $1 million bonus if he is still on the roster on March 13th. And if he receives that bonus, you can all but lock him in as the Packers’ intended kicker.
Perhaps I’ve already memory-holed the routine butt-clenching
of every PAT and field goal attempt the few years prior to McManus’ arrival in Green Bay, but consider me pretty firmly in the “moving on” camp.
Speaking personally, I’ve found it hard to reconcile accepting his help in the kicking game with his widely reported allegations of sexual assault. Referring to him as “the sex pest” in group threads and game day slack channels is slightly numbing, but it doesn’t erase the ick.
For me, that also permits McManus an extremely short leash. And the leash for most NFL kickers is already short — or it should be. All of that is to say his 2025 season all but erased any confidence I had in him as a player.
After completing 95.2% of his kicks in 2024, he managed a mere 80% success rate in 2025. Much of that can be attributed to an injury, but how he handled that also leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Look, I’m not here to reveal a foolproof replacement plan for McManus. I’m just here to say, if we can replace the sex pest with someone who can make even 5% more kicks, I’m all for it.
GM Brian Gutekunst seems to have already made this The Special Teams Offseason, so let’s just keep that rolling.
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