Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid said Wednesday that Harrison Butker will kick against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday, despite leading the NFL with seven missed field goals this season.

"I'm going to stick with Butker," Reid said.

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“I’m going to stick with (Harrison) Butker,” Reid said.

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Reid cited Butker's history in Kansas City, saying, "Harrison has done such a great job for us over time here." Butker arrived in 2017 and owns the Super Bowl records for both longest field goal and career field goals.

The coach said Butker deserved time to work through "these little peaks and valleys things," and the Chiefs would "take it week by week."

Reid's decision followed Butker's two misses three days earlier in Kansas City's 35-12 victory over the New York Jets. Butker missed from 56 yards just before halftime, then sent a 51-yard retry wide right after an offside penalty against the Jets.

Chiefs fans booed him as he headed to the locker room at halftime. Butker converted all five extra points against the Jets.

This season, Butker has made 12-of-19 field-goal attempts, with at least one miss in each of Kansas City's last three games. His 17 missed kicks since the start of the 2025 season are the most by an NFL kicker over that span.

Butker said after Sunday's game that he could not explain the misses and did not feel nervous on long attempts.

"I don't go out to those 50-yard-plus field goals feeling nervous or scared," he said, adding that he was confident but that "it's just not clicking."

Butker said his teammates had seen his work across 10 seasons, supported him and wanted him at his best. "I've just got to make them go in," he said.

Reid had not chosen between Butker and Justin Tucker for the Falcons game immediately after the win over the Jets. He brought up the decision unprompted in his opening postgame remarks, telling reporters, "I'm not making any decisions right now."

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Reid said last week that Butker had received most of the kicking repetitions in practice over Tucker. Chiefs special teams coordinator Dave Toub said last week that the team believed Butker's technique problems were fixable.

Toub said coaches had given Butker difficult kicks in game-like practice situations, moving him to locations where he was struggling. "We're not just going to pull the plug," Toub said last week.

Kansas City added Tucker to the practice squad in late October. Tucker, 37, previously kicked for the Baltimore Ravens and last played in the NFL in 2024.

ESPN, citing a February 2025 report by The Baltimore Banner, said 16 massage therapists accused Tucker of sexual misconduct. ESPN said the Ravens released him in May 2025, with an NFL suspension following two months later. The league imposed a 10-game suspension on Tucker for violating its personal conduct policy, which he served.

The Guardian put the number of accusers at more than a dozen and said Tucker denied the allegations and never faced criminal charges.

It was not immediately known whether Kansas City would promote Tucker from the practice squad for a game.

Atlanta lost 34-17 to the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium in Madrid.