Curious as to what the sentiment around Will Lutz is from a broader Broncos fan base. It seems like every week in my Game Day group chat with my buddies someone always brings up wanting to get rid of Lutz. On Thanksgiving my brother even brought it up. We are all Broncos fans and watch the games. Sure we aren’t NFL coaches but we have a good understanding of the game. I think Lutz is doing fine, but apparently I’m the only one within my group.
Just for some perspective:
Lutz is 24/26 92.3% on FGs
Tied for 4h in FG attempts
9th in FG make percentage (min 5 attempts)
In my opinion the 2 misses he has are excusable. The raiders miss, he was still fairly new to the team. I chalk that up to a chemistry issue with the holder. The miss against the chiefs was a block, which to me is the line’s fault.
Edited for formatting.
Lutz is the kicker version of Russ.
A few years ago he was one of the top kickers in the NFL. Now he is not the kicker that he was.
However, he’s not an active weakness in the team, and some of our rivals do carry shaky kickers which could come to bite them.