Colts signg Matt Gay to largt ee-agent al ever for kicker

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The NFL world reacts to a historic kicker ntract given to former Rams kicker Matt Gay, signg a four-year $22.5 ln al wh the Colts.

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INSIR: WHY COLTS BELIEVE NEW KICKER MATT GAY IS WORTH THE MONEY

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“Well, I didn’t take him for granted, bee I kept re-signg him, but gettg Matt Gay, we thk he n be a real weapon. Gay was on the Colts practice squad 2020 for two months before the Rams snapped up the former fifth-round pick, a player who’d found his rhythm ’d jt happened to fd his rhythm Blankenship’s bt stretch of gam an Indianapolis uniform. ”While Blankenship faltered, Gay blossomed to one of the NFL’s bt kickers wh the ma 92.

INSIR: WHY THE COLTS MA MATT GAY THE HIGHT PAID EE AGENT KICKER NFL HISTORY

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5% of his kicks Los Angel, buryg 17 of 23 om 50 yards or Gay keeps that up Indianapolis, the Colts no longer have to worry about ridg a roller aster at the kickg spot. ”Landg Gay required a signifint vtment.

A nsistency Gay believ he’ll be able to brg to his new team. “Consistency, day and day out, wh the small thgs is really what’s the key to jt seeg the rults, ” Gay said.

”Gay found that rhythm kicker also found a cy that he and his wife loved, a place they uld see themselv raisg a faiary helped the Colts land him ee agency. “Us havg that exposure to Matt, I thought was an advantage, ” Ballard Colts are now untg on Gay to give them the nsistency Vatieri once provid McLghl, who has stggled to fd a permanent home the NFL bee of a tenncy to stggle ld weather, Gay has proven he n transfer his door nsistency to the ld weather on the road November, December and January.

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”Gay’s Green Bay blast ma him only the third kicker history to make a 50-yard field goal temperatur lr than 25 gre, and burnished his reputatn as one of the NFL’s bt up-and-g kickers. INDIANAPOLIS — The al Matt Gay signed, the al that reprents one of the biggt ntracts ever hand out to an NFL kicker, is for four that’s not the way the Colts new kicker is lookg at knows he might have jt picked his home for a long, long time.

When an NFL kicker is as good as Gay has been sce he took over Los Angel, he don’t have to worry about movg around a whole Vatieri kicked Indianapolis for 14 years. Younger kickers around Gay’s age, 28, such as Philalphia’s Jake Elltt, Kansas Cy’s Harrison Butker and New Orleans’ Wil Lutz, have been entrenched wh their teams for half a or Colts are hopg Gay n be that kd of kicker, allowg the anchise to rt easy for the first time sce age ught up to Vatieri, and Indianapolis was willg to pay Gay $22. Comgs and gogs:Colts offseason tracker“It was my first time really htg ee agency and beg able to explore the market, ” Gay said.

“You want to be able to take re of your fay, ” Gay said.

COLTS SIGNG MATT GAY TO LARGT EE-AGENT AL EVER FOR KICKER

”Blsed wh the benef of hdsight, the Colts probably wish they’d never let Gay young kicker spent two months on the Indianapolis practice squad 2020, bidg his time and tchg his breath after his first chance at a permanent NFL home went awry. Gay, a Lou Groza Award wner llege at Utah, was drafted by Tampa Bay the fifth round 2019, and he spent his entire rookie season as a he was nsistent, makg jt 77. Veteran Ryan Sucp arrived the next offseason and took Gay’s job trag mp, a move that eed the young kicker to be Rodrigo Blankenship’s backup Indianapolis durg the first COVID season, a season when jt about every team rried an extra kicker on the practice squad se a posive tt ed an emergency right before a Colts didn’t have much reason, at least not at the time, to pick Gay over Blankenship, who ma 19-of-21 field goals and all but two of his extra pots before the Rams plucked Gay off the Indianapolis practice squad.

Quietly, though, Gay had veloped to a different kd of kicker his two months as a NFL kicker.

“For the NFL, really for all the posns, but kickg, there’s such a foc and spotlight on you, ” Gay said.

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Colts signg Matt Gay to largt ee-agent al ever for kicker.

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