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Chiefs sign another specialist; Dave Toub talks about Butker’s current backup

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.