When the Los Angeles Rams put kicker Blake Grupe on injured reserve on Monday, it was reported that they worked out veteran kickers Brandon McManus and Matt Prater.
NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reports the Rams are signing K Brandon McManus following a successful workout on Monday. The Rams cut K Harrison Mevis prior to Week 6, when new K Blake Grupe suffered a torn ACL in the first half.
Upon moving on from Harrison Mevis, the Rams added Blake Grupe as his kicker replacement. That proved to be short-lived, due to Grupe’s injury on Sunday.
The Los Angeles Rams hosted K Brandon McManus & K Matt Prater for a workout on Monday, according to Mike Garafolo. Rams K Blake Grupe tore his ACL and is done for the rest of the season, so Los Angeles will have to replace him quickly.
How many of the active NFL players to rush for multiple touchdowns on at least four occasions can you name in five minutes?
Green Bay Packers rookie kicker Trey Smack began a nine-kick set at OTAs on Tuesday by blasting an extra point straight through the uprights. And then, his practice went south.
A few trades have rearranged the NFL's backup quarterback ranks, but the dust has mostly settled. From a mix of recent first-round disappointments, aging vets, and young project types, here is how the league's QB2 ranks look for the 2026 season.
It’s June 1, and that means this is the final day in which Nate Hobbs and Brandon McManus are financially part of the Green Bay Packers. Hobbs was released near the start of free agency, part of the team’s rebuild at cornerback, and McManus was released in the wake of the drafting of Trey Smack.
Green Bay released cornerback Nate Hobbs and kicker Brandon McManus with post-June 1 designations earlier this offseason. The Green Bay Packers might not be the most aggressive franchise in terms of salary cap management.
Brandon McManus won Super Bowl 50. Made all 10 field goals across that entire playoff run. Carried a 91.7% postseason accuracy rate, 10th best in NFL history.
The Packers are back to square on at the kicker position as the struggles at the position continued last year. What figured to be a three man competition during training camp took a hard turn last week.
The Green Bay Packers officially turned the page on veteran kicker Brandon McManus this week, releasing the former Super Bowl champion just months after signing him to a multi-year deal.
The Jets will not have the luxury of leaning on Nick Folk this season, who signed a two-year deal with the Falcons in free agency. Folk was one of the more efficient kickers in the league in 2025, making 96.6% of his field goals (28-of-29) and showing he still had a big leg, converting 7-of-8 from 50-plus yards out.
NFL stars can't play forever, and retirement is coming sooner than later for some of the league's top players. These 25 players could call it quits following the 2026 season.
The Packers released veteran kicker Brandon McManus on Friday, ESPN reported. Green Bay drafted Florida kicker Trey Smack in the sixth round last month.
In the wake of Green Bay’s decision to select Trey Smack late in the draft, a kicker competition between he and veteran Brandon McManus seemed to be in store.
Packers paid kicker Brandon McManus a significant roster bonus last month, but that doesn’t guarantee him a roster spot after his poor 2025 performance.
The Green Bay Packers enter the offseason with some obvious and major needs if they hope to improve next season. Cornerback, defensive tackle, and interior offensive line are clearly at or near the top of the list.
The Chicago Bears do not make it easy on themselves, but they are money when the chips are down and the game is on the line.
He is dealing with an injury, but he is planning on playing against the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 6.
With kicker Brandon McManus battling a quad injury, the Packers hosted Lucas Havrisik and Greg Joseph for workouts on Thursday, per ESPN’s Rob Demovsky.
If the Packers want to be a Super Bowl contender, they will need to win close games against good teams.
Let’s have a quick Green Bay Packers refresher. Last year during training camp, the biggest competition — by far — was at kicker. And let’s be honest… it went terribly.
It's never a "sexy" move to sign a kicker, but few organizations in the NFL know how important it can be to have a good one like the Green Bay Packers do.
His 2024 partnership with the Packers became mutually beneficial.
The Green Bay Packers have several players scheduled to be unrestricted free agents when the new league year starts in March. One player who the Packers definitely want back is veteran kicker Brandon McManus.
To stay ready for an opportunity he wasn’t quite sure he’d ever get, new Green Bay Packers kicker Brandon McManus had to get creative. “There’s three different places I kicked at,” McManus said.
The Green Bay Packers addressed arguably their biggest weakness with their latest roster move.
The NFL concluded its investigation of former Jaguars K Brandon McManus with the finding that there was insufficient evidence of a violation of the personal conduct policy, per Adam Schefter.
There has been a major update in the recent legal case of longtime NFL kicker Brandon McManus.
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