PITTSBURGH – The Pittsburgh Steelers usher in a new era in team kicking. While the job of kicker Chris Boswell is secure, he will have a new secondary cast for the 2021 season.
The Steelers released pointer Jordan Berry and long parp Kameron Canaday, league sources have confirmed to ESPN. With his departures, seventh-round debutant Pressley Harvin III is the alleged scorer and Christian Kuntz, who played FCS football at nearby Duquesne University, is the team’s long trap.
Berry first joined the Steelers as an unrecruited free agent in 2015 and has been the team’s top player for most of six seasons. He was briefly released last year when the team attacked former Kansas City leader Dustin Colquitt for a month, but Berry re-signed with the team in October and resumed work. of punting. He averaged 44.4 yards per point in his career, including a 45.8 best last season. He went from foot to foot with Harvin, a Georgia Tech product and Ray Guy winner in 2020, throughout the training camp and preseason.
“It’s really been competitive,” special teams coordinator Danny Smith said during training camp. “He’s really done it. It’s good to see two professionals put their best foot forward. There’s no pun intended. But Jordan is betting on the ball better than ever and Pressley has a lot of talent, so he’s been a whole competition “.
Harvin impressed from the jump, averaging 46 yards per point during his three preseason appearances. Berry lived up to the opportunity and averaged 43.9 yards per point in two preseason games, but the team opted to go with their draft pick.
In a long time, Pittsburgh native Kuntz won the job in Canaday for four years after spending part of the 2020 season on the Steelers ’training squad. He also spent the 2019 training camp with the Steelers before being resigned during the final cuts.
He has been on the roster and in team camps since 2017 and had a stint in the XFL with the Dallas Renegades, earning praise for his versatility of being a linebacker and a long paraglider.