Seahawks Sign Former Vikings Kicker Blair Walsh

Blair Walsh has found a new NFL team.

Seahawks Sign Ex-Vikings kicker Blair Walsh

The Seahawks announced Thursday that they have signed the former Minnesota Vikings kicker.

Walsh, 27, missed four field goals and four extra points in 2016 before being cut in mid-November. The Vikings signed free agent Kai Forbath as a replacement.

Following a strong start to his career in 2012, Walsh struggled the past two seasons, missing nine field goal attempts and eight extra points in total.

One of Walsh’s biggest misses was a 27-yard field goal attempt  that came in the 2015 playoffs during a loss to the Seahawks and shattered the Vikings’ chance to advance past the wild-card round.

A sixth-round draft pick out of Georgia in 2012, Walsh signed a four-year, $15 million contract extension with the Vikings in 2015 after setting several team records.

The signing could signal the end of Steven Hauschka’s six-year run in Seattle– the kicker is set to become a free agent. Hauschka also struggled in 2016, missing four field goal attempts and six extra points. The 31-year-old has proved ineffective since the NFL moved the extra point back, missing 11 total PATs in the last two years (including playoffs).

Blair Walsh of the Minnesota Vikings prepares for a kickoff by Joe Bielawa via Wikimedia Commons.

Article by Pablo Mena