{"id":527468,"date":"2026-03-10T19:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/527468\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T19:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:39:10","slug":"texans-faibairn-now-nfls-highest-paid-k-with-13m-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/527468\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans’ Faibairn now NFL’s highest-paid K with $13M extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DJ Bien-AimeMar 10, 2026, 02:27 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>DJ Bien-Aime covers the Houston Texans for ESPN. He joined ESPN in July of 2022 after covering the New York Jets for the New York Daily News. He’s a former athlete who finished his college career at Louisville. You can catch DJ on ESPN Radio on his show “Talkin’ Texans.”<\/p>\n

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HOUSTON — The Texans have agreed to a two-year, $13 million contract extension with kicker Ka’imi Fairbairn<\/a>, with the $6.5 million average annual salary making him the NFL’s highest paid at his position, his agency Athletes First announced.<\/p>\n

The Chiefs’ Harrison Butker<\/a> currently holds that honor with a $6.4 million average annual salary.<\/p>\n

Fairbairn was entering the last year of his deal. He was a reliable scoring threat for the Texans, as he led the league in field goal attempts (48) and makes (44) in 2025. He was also perfect on extra points, going 28-of-28.<\/p>\n

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Fairbairn ranked ninth in field goal percentage (91.7). He also had 22 kickoff touchbacks, which ranked fourth in the league.<\/p>\n

In Week 18 against the Indianapolis Colts<\/a>, Fairbairn nailed a career-high and Houston Texans<\/a> franchise-record six field goals. It also tied an NFL record for most makes in a game.<\/p>\n

This is one of many extensions the Texans have done for their players this offseason. Last week Houston extended All-Pro defensive end Danielle Hunter<\/a> for $40 million and tight end Dalton Schultz<\/a> agreed to a one-year extension worth $12.6 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DJ Bien-AimeMar 10, 2026, 02:27 PM ET CloseDJ Bien-Aime covers the Houston Texans for ESPN. He joined ESPN…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-527468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527468","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=527468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}