The Minnesota Vikings are finally making a change at kicker.
The Vikings announced on Tuesday they are releasing kicker Blair Walsh, who just two days missed an extra point during Minnesota’s 26-20 loss to the Washington Redskins.
We have released K Blair Walsh. pic.twitter.com/bNR5t44ZWJ
— Minnesota Vikings (@Vikings) November 15, 2016
The Vikings held tryouts for kickers last week in a final attempt to get Walsh’s career turned around. But when he missed his NFL-high eighth kick of the season on Sunday, Minnesota was forced into making the move.
Over nine games in 2016, Walsh missed four field goals and four extra points.
His most famous miss came this past January, when he hooked the game-winning field goal from 27 outs against the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC Wild Card Round. The Vikings gave him every opportunity to rebound from the crushing miss, but Walsh has been unable to get back into a groove this season.
In fact, Walsh probably cost the Vikings a win in Week 9 when he missed an extra point and had a field goal blocked during an overtime loss to the Detroit Lions at US Bank Stadium.
A sixth-round pick of the Vikings and a Pro Bowler as a rookie in 2012, Walsh ends his career in Minnesota having made 133-of-158 field goals (84.2 percent) and 156-of-164 extra points (94.5 percent).
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