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Ammendola

Per ESPN’s Field Yates, the Lions also worked out Lucas Havrisik, Matthew McCrane and Andre Szmyt following Michael Badgley’s season-ending injury. Ammendola (67.0 percent) and Havrisik (75.0 percent) are coming off shaky field-goal conversion rates in 2023. McCrane (80.0 percent) and Szmyt (87.0 percent) fared better in their recent UFL stints, though none of the four inspire confidence. The Lions’ fantasy-friendly kicker role may underwhelm in 2024.

Fairbairn has missed more than a month of game action with a lingering quad injury that landed him on injured reserve. He should be back for this week’s game against Tennessee. An injury-marred Houston offense makes Fairbairn a very shaky fantasy option for the rest of the season. The Texans have the sixth most field goal attempts (29) in 2023.

According to Wilson, Fairbairn is faring well in his recovery from a strained quad; he’s just not quite ready to go this week. The team won’t be activating him from injured reserve ahead of Sunday’s game against the Jets and has instead elevated Matt Ammendola from the practice squad. Ammendola is 6-of-9 on field goal attempts this season and made all three of his attempts in last week’s win over the Broncos.

The decision to waive Ammendola comes hours after the Texans claimed EDGE Derek Barnett off waivers from the Eagles. Ammendola missed a potential game-tying field goal from 58 yards out in the Texans’ Week 12 loss to the Texans, but his time with Houston was always expected to be short. An injury to Ka’imi Fairbairn earlier in the year resulted in Ammendola being signed off the team’s practice squad on November 11th. Ammendola converted three of his six field goal attempts in three games with the Texans but missed his last three attempts.

Ammendola was signed from the practice squad with Ka’imi Fairbairn expected to miss the next three weeks. The third-year kicker has converted 69.2% of field goals and 86.4% of extra points as a part-time kicker the last two seasons.

Matt Ammendola was signed to the Texans’ practice squad earlier this week. He will be called up for kicking duties versus Cincinnati. Ammendola is a viable fantasy option for managers looking to the waiver wire, though the Texans aren’t projected to score points in droves as road underdogs to the Bengals this week.

Unless Fairbairn can return on Friday, Matt Ammendola will handle kicking duties against the Bengals.

He’s hopeful because the Cardinals failed to trust Matt Ammendola almost at all in today’s game, as they went for it three times inside the Seattle 30 on fourth downs rather than trusting Ammendola. They failed all three times, and Kingsbury admitted that not having his main kicker factored into those decisions and said they’d “have to discuss” if Ammendola would play on Thursday if Prater wasn’t up. Long story short: Ammendola does not appear to have garnered much confidence inside the Arizona locker room.

Ammendola filled in as a practice squad elevation with Matt Prater (hip) sidelined in Week 5. This signing suggests the Cardinals expect Prater to miss more time. Ammendola made both of his extra points and one field goal last week but missed a potential game-tying kick with just 22 seconds left in the game.

Prater briefly kicked through the issue in Week 4 before giving way to Eno Benjamin on kickoffs. He isn’t appearing likely to suit up against the Eagles. Practice squadder Matt Ammendola would be the next man up. We would not stream Ammendola vs. Philly.