KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Chiefs coach Andy Reid announced Wednesday that Harrison Butker will continue to handle kicking duties as the team gets set for Sunday's game against the Atlanta Falcons.
"I'm going to stick with Butker," Reid said. "We'll go from there."
Butker, a 10-year veteran, has struggled this season and leads the NFL with seven missed field goals, including a missed 51-yarder in last week's 35-12 win over the Jets, which resulted in Chiefs fans booing him following the missed attempt.
Following the game, Reid said he hadn't made a decision on whether Butker or veteran Justin Tucker, who was signed last month to the practice squad, would handle the kicking duties against the Falcons.
Despite Butker's struggles since the start of last season -- he has missed 17 kicks, including 12 field goal attempts and five extra point tries, the most by any kicker in that span -- Reid has defended Butker and remained loyal to him.
"Harrison has done such a great job for us over time here," Reid said Wednesday. "Sometimes you go through these little peaks and valleys things. I've got to give him a chance to work through them and we'll see how things go. We'll just take it week by week."
At the height of his career, Butker was a fixture in the Chiefs winning three Super Bowls in a five-year span in which he made several impressive kicks in clutch situations.
"I feel confident, I'm excited for the kicks and I've just got to do better," Butker said after Sunday's game. "Week after week saying the same thing. Guys support me. They've seen what I've done in my 10 seasons and they want me to be at my best. I know who I can be. I've just got to make them go in."
Two weeks ago, the Chiefs signed Tucker, who hasn't played in the NFL since 2024.
Tucker, 37, served a 10-game suspension last season for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy. He was accused of sexual misconduct by 16 massage therapists from eight high-end spas and wellness centers in the Baltimore area, according to a report by The Baltimore Banner in February 2025. Tucker's alleged misconduct reportedly occurred between 2012 and 2016, during his first five seasons with the Baltimore Ravens. In May 2025, the Ravens released Tucker. Two months later, the NFL suspended him. In November, after he was eligible for reinstatement, Tucker had his first tryout with the New Orleans Saints.
Last week, Reid said Butker received the majority of the kicking reps in practice over Tucker. Longtime special teams coordinator Dave Toub also said last week that the Chiefs are confident Butker's issues with his techniques can be corrected.
"We're going to keep coaching him," Toub said of Butker. "You try to put him in those [game-like] situations, you create hard kicks and you move him around to where he's having troubles and you work on that. You exhaust every possibility to get this guy right, -- and that's what we're doing. We're not just going to pull the plug."