The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed American kicker\u202fJonathan Kim.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kim\u202f(6\u20190-227)\u00a0signed with the NFL\u2019s Chicago Bears as an undrafted free agent following the 2025 NFL Draft, spending a portion of training camp with the team.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As a senior at Michigan State in 2024, Kim made 19 of 21 field-goal attempts \u2014 a 90.5-per-cent accuracy rate \u2014 with the longest three-pointer being a 55-yarder. He was 11-for-12 from 40 yards or more over the course of the season, with the lone miss being from 55. Kim also set a school record for field goals in a game (six)\u00a0en\u00a0route to being a Second-Team All-Big Ten\u00a0selection\u00a0in 2024. The six field goals were an FBS single-game high that season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 2023, Kim went 13-for-18 on field-goal attempts for Michigan State, with four successful three-pointers of at least 50 yards. His 58-yarder against the University of Iowa on Sept. 30,\u00a02023\u00a0was the longest in the history of the Hawkeyes\u2019\u00a0nearly century-old\u00a0home venue, Kinnick Stadium. He graduated as Michigan State\u2019s All-Time leader in field-goal percentage (82.1).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kim transferred to Michigan State after spending four seasons (2019-2022) at the University of North Carolina, where he was primarily the Tar Heels\u2019 kickoff specialist. He led American college football in touchbacks (76) in 2020 and was first in the Atlantic Coast Conference (65) and fourth in the nation the following year. Over 60 college games,\u00a0representing\u00a0two schools, he averaged 63.6 yards per kickoff and registered 246 touchbacks. Only 62 of his kickoffs were returned.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed American kicker\u202fJonathan Kim.\u00a0 Kim\u202f(6\u20190-227)\u00a0signed with the NFL\u2019s Chicago Bears as an undrafted free…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-456483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}