The Bills signed kicker Lucas Havrisik this week to serve as competition for Bass, who has converted on 9-of-12 field goals this season and 18-of-20 extra points. The Bills signed Bass to a four-year extension last offseason, so we wouldn’t expect them to rush to move on from him. With that said, they’re clearly open to the idea with Havrisik now in the building.

The deal is worth "up to" $21 million. That's a meaningless number, especially for a kicker, but it does include a robust $12.3 million guaranteed. It's a deserved extension for a 26-year-old who has converted north of 87 percent of his field goal attempts each of the past two seasons in one of the toughest weather divisions in football. Bass doesn't have the biggest leg, but his accuracy is more than sufficient for the Super Bowl-or-bust Bills. 

Strange. The Bills are still looking at kickers two weeks after waiving veteran Stephen Hauschka and seemingly giving the starting nod to rookie Tyler Bass. Buffalo tried out kickers Matthew McCrane (Kansas State), Tristan Vizcaino (Washington), and Ramiz Ahmed (Nevada). Bass, who made a meager 20 of 28 field goal tries last year at Georgia Southern, would make a decent fantasy option in Week 1. Buffalo is a 6.5-point home favorite against the Jets. 

Bass beat out veteran Stephen Hauschka. If teams use a draft pick on a kicker, they are usually going to win the job, but Bass was a bit of a head-scratching pick. He enters the league out of small-school Georgia Southern having converted just 20-of-28 kicks as a redshirt senior. The Bills are obviously in love with his leg, while Bass did convert 114-of-116 college extra points. The lack of fans early in the season could help a young kicker gain confidence.