Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker overcomes earlier miss to hit the game-winning field goal

Kansas City kicker Harrison Butker was able to put an earlier miss behind him to step up and nail the game-winning field goal in Super Bowl LVII.

The normally automatic kicker made a 42-yard field goal off the left post late in the first quarter, a kick that would have given them the lead.

But he was able to shake off the earlier miss to put together a 27-yard chip-kick field goal with seconds remaining to earn the Chiefs their third Super Bowl.

“That’s what you dream about as a kicker, to get to the Super Bowl and have a game-winning kick,” Butker said.

“It’s an amazing feeling, and now I’m very happy to be with the Chiefs organization.”

Throughout the season, Butker had been dealing with a high ankle sprain that recurred in Week 1. That injury was to his non-kicking leg, which serves as the weight-bearing plantar leg. of the kicker

This sprain dogged Butker’s season, a frustrating season by his standards, with four extra point errors and seven field goals, including the Super Bowl one.

“You have to focus on the next kick, and that’s what he was doing,” Butker said. “You look at the scoreboard and you’re like, ‘Wow, if I made that field goal, we’d have three more points.'”

‘But is that going to help me take the next kick? Probably not. You have to put that out of your mind and just focus on the process and the next opportunity you get.’

Butker was selected in the seventh round of the 2017 NFL Draft by the Carolina Panthers, who signed him to a practice squad contract.

The Chiefs cut him from the Panthers’ reserve team after their kicker, Cairo Santos, was placed on injured reserve.

Since then, Butker has become a linchpin in the Chiefs’ system, especially after a fantastic rookie season that saw him set team and league records.