{"id":192116,"date":"2026-05-14T10:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T10:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192116\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T10:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T10:01:13","slug":"analyst-believes-battling-pittsburgh-conditions-makes-chris-boswell-best-kicker-in-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192116\/","title":{"rendered":"Analyst Believes Battling Pittsburgh Conditions Makes Chris Boswell ‘Best Kicker In Football’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pittsburgh Steelers have added a lot of new pieces this offseason, but they also have several of their own players that they have to take care of. They have several players that don\u2019t have much time left on their contracts.<\/a> That included Chris Boswell, but the Steelers rewarded him with a contract extension recently. That tied him as the league\u2019s highest-paid kicker. While $7 million per year might be a lot for a kicker, analyst Michael Holley thinks Boswell is well worth that price tag.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor my money, I think this is the best kicker in football,\u201d Holley said recently on the Pro Football Talk podcast.<\/a> \u201cWhat\u2019s the distinction, what\u2019s the separator between Boswell and [Brandon] Aubrey? This is not Aubrey\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoswell plays in a bad-weather city, on a bad field\u2026 Not only plays in a bad weather city but plays in a bad weather division\u2026 It\u2019s really hard to kick in that division and in that stadium. I will give it to him because he is money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boswell has been with the Steelers since 2015, and he\u2019s often been one of their best players. While special teams is sometimes overlooked, it\u2019s still an important part of the game. Outside of one or two down years that can be attributed to injuries, Boswell has consistently been one of the league\u2019s best kickers.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s made two Pro Bowls and was named a First-team All-Pro in 2024. Boswells\u2019 field goal percentage dipped slightly last year, falling from 93.2-percent in 2024 to 84.4-percent, but he only had five misses. Not all of them were his fault, either.<\/p>\n

One of those whiffs was because Pittsburgh\u2019s field was so beat up. Holley is correct to credit Boswell for not letting outside factors influence him too much. Kicking in Pittsburgh is hard, but Boswell makes it look easy.<\/p>\n

Boswell is 35 years old, but he doesn\u2019t look like he\u2019s slowing down. He made nine of his 11 50-plus-yard field goal attempts last year. He\u2019s won the Steelers plenty of games over the years. Boswell should be one of the most important pieces for the Steelers\u2019 new coaching staff, and that\u2019s reflected in his new deal.<\/a> Hopefully, he spends the rest of his career in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers have added a lot of new pieces this offseason, but they also have several of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11858,85538,73,75,74,1833,13477],"class_list":["post-192116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-chris-boswell","tag-michael-holley","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-pro-football-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}