If there’s been one word you could use to describe Kansas City Chiefs placekicker Harrison Butker in 2021, it would be reliable. You can literally count his field goal and extra-point misses on one hand.
But that ended — at least temporarily — when Butker was one of three Chiefs players added to the team’s Reserve/COVID list on Monday. Because Butker tested positive and is unvaccinated, it was immediately known he would not available for Sunday’s home game against the Pittsburgh Steelers; they moved recently-signed practice-squad placekicker Elliott Fry to the active roster on that same day.