Back to Square one at the kicker position

Havrisik kicked in three games for the Packers last year and made all of his field goals.

But he struggled in his third game against the New York Giants missing 2 extra point kicks.

Granted it was a windy day in New York, but Havrisik will have another opportunity to get the starting job as the kicker.

Smack will also have the same opportunity as well.

The Packers do think very highly of Smack as the team traded up to draft him in the sixth round.

The team also labeled Smack as the top rated kicker in the draft, but we’ll have to see how he is during training camp and preseason games.

During his career with the Florida Gators Smack made 53 of his 64 career field goal attempts (82.8 percent)

Breaking it down further he also made 14 of 19 from 40-49 yards and 10 of 13 from 50 or longer.

With McManus out of the picture, the slight edge goes to Smack.

We’ll have to again see how both kicker will perform in training camp or if the Packers bring in another kicker to make it a three man competition again.

Conclusion

There was a point in time in 2024 where we’d never thought we see any kicker succeed in Green Bay.

For a franchise that only went through 4 kickers between 1990-2022, it was a pain to watch the inconstancy in kickers.

McManus proved to only be a temporary bandage on a wound that is still very much bleeding.

We’re back to square one once again.

Hopefully the second time around will be much better than the first time around.