The Jets have signed unrestricted free agent placekicker Cairo Santos, who arrives after Chandler Catanzaro, the Jets' kicker last season, signed Wednesday with Tampa Bay.
Santos, born in São Paulo, Brazil, was unfamiliar with American football until he came to St. Augustine, FL, as a foreign exchange student. He took to placekicking at St. Joseph Academy and then at Tulane, and became the first Brazilian to play in the NFL when he entered the league an undrafted free agent with Kansas City in 2014.
In his first three seasons with the Chiefs, Santos (5'8", 160) converted 86 of 102 field goal attempts (84.