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Chiefs send $25 million message by refusing to trust Harrison Butker

The Kansas City Chiefs’ late-game choice revealed a troubling lack of trust in the NFL's highest-paid kicker.

Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker. | Cooper Neill/GettyImages

The Kansas City Chiefs have a problem at kicker.

It’s a statement that has been true all season, but the biggest red flag of the entire year came at the end of Sunday’s must-win game against the Los Angeles Chargers. After Gardner Minshew’s final pass toward Travis Kelce was intercepted, ending the game and eliminating Kansas City from the playoffs, a thought immediately came to mind: Where was Harrison Butker?