If there’s one silver lining to Steelers K Chris Boswell wanting more money, it’s this: Relatively speaking, kickers are cheap. For context, the highest APY for a kicker right now is $6.4 million, and the highest cap number is $6,825,000. At the moment, Boswell fits pretty comfortably below those numbers despite being first-team All-Pro.
So, what is the solution?
“I think when you have an established NFL kicker — and there’s usually not many of them — I’m almost of the mind [that] you hold your nose and just pay the kicker,” Steve Palazzolo said while speaking about Chris Boswell on 93.