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Prater will remain on injured reserve for at least one more week. Chad Ryland will continue to kick for the Cardinals. Facing a Carolina defense that should allow Arizona to move the ball with ease, Ryland is a solid streaming option this week.

Prater will practice with the Cardinals this week and has a chance to suit up in Week 16 against the Panthers. Chad Ryland would continue kicking for Arizona if Prater, who suffered a knee injury in October, needs another week of practice before returning to action. The Panthers are allowing the fourth most field goal tries this season.

Prater has been on injured reserve since October 15th. He’s not eligible to return until Week 12, meaning there’s still plenty of time for him to recover from his injury before the team can even consider activating him. Prater’s replacement, Chad Ryland, has converted on 10-of-11 field goal attempts this season and has two field goals of 50-plus yards to his name. His emergence could put the Cardinals in a tough decision once Prater is healthy enough to be activated.

Prater missed Week 5 with the knee issue and is listed as questionable for Week 6. Practice squad kicker Chad Ryland will take his spot in the lineup. Ryland went 3-of-4 on field goals last week and connected on his only PAT attempt.

Prater was limited in practice all week after sitting out in Week 5. Backup kicker Chad Ryland is a viable streaming option in a game featuring Week 6’s third-highest over/under (49.5). Ryland made 3-of-4 field goals and his one extra point attempt in Week 5.

Prater’s non-kicking knee kept him sidelined throughout the week and will now keep him out of this week’s contest. Kicker Chad Ryland, who was signed earlier to the practice squad, has been elevated to kick for the Cardinals in this week’s game against the 49ers. In his lone season kicking for the Patriots, Ryland converted on 64 percent of his field goal attempts while making 24-of-25 extra points.

Prater is dealing with a left knee issue, per the team’s injury report. While it’s not an injury to his kicking foot, it goes without saying that an injury to any leg can impact on his ability to kick at a high level. We’ll see how this impacts his Week 5 availability, but if Prater is unable to go, the Cardinals would likely elevate kicker Chad Ryland, who they signed to their practice squad earlier this week.

Ditto Lucas Havrisik. Brayden Narveson has missed four of 13 field-goal attempts this year for the Packers, including the league’s only sub-40 yard miss through four weeks. The Packers may be ready to make a change.

Something of a swan song terrible pick for erstwhile GM Bill Belichick, Ryland suffered through an ineffective rookie campaign and saw Joey Slye added as veteran depth in May. Slye has now presumably won the job. Kickers tend to begin their careers strangely slow in the NFL, so 24-year-old former fourth-rounder Ryland could quickly revive his fortunes on the workout circuit.

Slye will serve as camp competition for second-year kicker Chad Ryland, who converted on 16-of-25 field goals in his rookie season. Ryland missed 7-of-14 attempts from 40-plus yards out, a range that Slye converted on at a 71.4 percent rate last season. Slye has converted 82.3 percent of his field goals for his career and has spent the last two seasons with Washington. While he was most recently with the Jaguars, Slye never attempted a field goal for them, as he was signed back in mid-March as a free agent.