For so long in the history of the Detroit Lions, having a reliable kicker was almost an afterthought. For many of those years, there were often bigger fish to fry. Kickers like Jason Hanson and Matt Prater were the epitome of consistency, and you never know how good you have it until you have to do without it.
For the past few years, after a lot of kickers walked through the doors in Allen Park, but the Lions may have found their guy in Jake Bates. Kyle Meinke of MLive has more on where he believes Bates stands thus far through the preseason.