He’ll miss at least the first four weeks of the season. Friendship ended with Tyler Bass, now Matt Prater is your best friend in fantasy leagues where you want kicker points from the Bills.

Bass was a limited participant in Wednesday’s practice. Things evidently did not go well because the Bills signed free agent K Matt Prater earlier today. Bass appears to be highly unlikely to play in Week 1 against the Ravens.

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.