{"id":333109,"date":"2025-12-08T20:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/333109\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T20:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:42:07","slug":"why-eagles-cut-cameron-dicker-who-became-nfls-all-time-most-accurate-kicker-with-chargers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/333109\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Eagles cut Cameron Dicker, who became NFL\u2019s all-time most accurate kicker with Chargers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> not too long ago employed the most accurate kicker in NFL history.<\/p>\n

But they cut Cameron Dicker.<\/p>\n

Now, Dicker gets to match up with the Eagles on Monday Night Football in Week 14 as the placekicker for the Los Angeles Chargers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dicker enters the night having made 93.6% of his field goals, comfortably in first in NFL history ahead of Brandon Aubrey (90.4%).<\/p>\n

He could’ve been doing this in Philly.<\/p>\n

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Why did the Eagles cut Cameron Dicker?<\/p>\n

It was simple at the time. The Eagles were getting regular kicker Jake Elliott back from injury.<\/p>\n

It didn’t matter that Dicker had just made a game-winning field goal for the Eagles. Teams don’t keep two kickers, and the reliable starter Elliott was always going to get his job back.<\/p>\n

That was in 2022, a season that Dicker also was cut by the Los Angeles Rams<\/a> and the Baltimore Ravens<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Chargers were the beneficiary. When Dustin Hopkins was hurt for them later in the 2022 campaign, they brought the former Texas Longhorns star Dicker aboard.<\/p>\n

And since then, Dicker the kicker hasn’t gone anywhere. He’s a guy who would never be pushed aside by an aspiring kicker like he once was.<\/p>\n

It took a fourth opportunity before Dicker seized it. He hasn’t looked back.<\/p>\n

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