Green Bay Packers kicker Lucas Havrisik (35) went 10-for-10 on all of his attempts last month.
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Like sands through the hour glass, so are the days of our kicker.
The Green Bay Packers’ soap opera at kicker continued Saturday when Brandon McManus was added to the injury report and listed as doubtful for Green Bay’s game at the New York Giants Sunday.
That means Lucas Havrisik, who made all four of his field goals and went 6-of-6 on extra points when McManus missed two games last month, will likely handle the kicking duties against the Giants.
“I didn’t think I was going to be here this long,” Havrisik said recently. “I just take every day for as best as I can with my work and go from there.”
The Packers — who struggled for 18 months at kicker before McManus solved that problem last year — have been a mess at that position again in 2025 after McManus suffered a right quadriceps injury.
Green Bay signed Havrisik on Oct. 11 and has carried two kickers on the roster ever since. Havrisik made all 10 of his kicks when McManus missed games against Cincinnati and Arizona — highlighted by a franchise record 61-yard field goal against the Cardinals — but has been inactive the last three weeks.
“Very unusual,” Havrisik said of Green Bay keeping two kickers around.
Since McManus returned to the lineup Oct. 26 in Pittsburgh, he’s just 4-of-8 on field goals and 5-of-5 on extra points. For the season, McManus is 11-of-17 on field goals and his 64.7% conversion rate ranks last among the 39 kickers that have attempted field goals this season.
That follows a 2024 season in which McManus made 20-of-21 field goals during the regular season (95.2%), the best percentage of his 11-year career and the second-best in team history. McManus also made all 30 of his extra points last year, meaning he was a sensational 98.0% on all kicks (50-of-51) during the regular season.
“Last year, for whatever it is, is gone,” Green Bay special teams coach Rich Bisaccia said. “Right now we’re working through coming back all of an injury, which he hasn’t had for a long, long time.”
McManus brought stability back to what had been the weakest spot on Green Bay’s roster last season and was a big reason the Packers earned a trip to the postseason. McManus made game-winning field goals against both Houston and Jacksonville in his first two games as a Packer and remained virtually automatic the rest of the year.
Green Bay had gone through a nightmarish 2023 season at kicker when Anders Carlson missed more kicks than anyone in football. The Packers then went with rookie Brayden Narveson to begin the 2024 season, but sent him packing after he went just 12-of-17 on field goals (70.6)%.
The Packers’ uncertainty at kicker is back, though. And Green Bay is hoping Havrisik will provide a branch of consistency on Sunday.
“Every week, you’ve got to keep the same level of emotion of even-keel, just because it really doesn’t matter what you did last week,” Havrisik said. “What are you going to do now? So, very thankful for that. Obviously, it’s great, but I just try to focus on my next kick.”
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robreischel/2025/11/15/lucas-havrisik-expected-be-the-green-bay-packers-kicker-sunday/
