Chad

Ryland

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.

Folk lost the kicker battle to rookie fourth-rounder Chad Ryland and is now on the way to Tennessee. The 38-year-old vet converted 32-of-37 field goals for the Patriots last season and has converted 82.9 percent of field goals for his career. For now, the Titans’ kicker woes are solved after they tried multiple ways to solidify the position in camp.

The Jets got picks 120 and 184 for 112. Ryland (6'/190) spent four seasons as Eastern Michigan’s kicker before transferring to Maryland for a final campaign. He left EMU as the school’s all-time leading scorer while boasting a pair of seasons with a perfect record on PATs as well as two seasons with a hit rate north of 84 percent on field goals. He remained steady for his only season as a Terrapin. Ryland was also accurate on kickoffs, though his strength on field goals will only be considered average.