Who is Matthew Wright, the Chiefs’ starting kicker against the Raiders in Week 13? Career statistics, salary, contract…

THE Kansas City Chiefs will look to get back to winning ways when they take on the Las Vegas Raiders on Friday.

The Thanksgiving weekend game matches the defending Super Bowl champions against one of the weakest teams in the West, but the Chiefs are without a number of players due to injuries. The key among these absences is the holder Harrison Butkerwho was added to the team’s injured reserve list last month. The no. 2, Spencer Shraderinjured his hamstring, so Matthew Wright expected to start Friday.

Wright was picked up by the Chiefs earlier this week and signed to a practice squad contract. The 28-year-old was actually signed with the Chiefs for the 2022 Super Bowl winning season but he’s had a nomadic NFL career thus far.

What teams did Matthew Wright play for?

Lots of them. After going undrafted in the 2019 NFL Draft, Wright then signed a deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers but I never saw any playing time in the NFL. He had a brief stint with the Tampa Bay Vipers in the XFL before returning to sign with the Steelers and making his NFL debut in 2020.

He then drifted between teams, playing for the following from 2021 to 2024: Detroit Lions, Jacksonville Jaguars, Kansas City Chiefs, Pittsburgh Steelers, Kansas City Chiefs, Carolina Panthers, San Francisco 49ers, Atlanta Falcons, New England Patriots, Carolina Panthers, Steelers Pittsburgh, San Francisco 49ers and finally, for the third time, the Kansas City Chiefs.

Many of those stints were solely as offseason or practice squad members, but he has an impressive conversion rate. Wright has made 43 of 50 field goal attempts during his NFL career, for a field goal percentage of 86%. His longest record is 59 meters.

Matthew Wright Salary Details for Chiefs

The last contract Wright signed was a one-year contract with the San Francisco 49ers, worth $1,055,000 guaranteed salary. Throughout his time in the league, Wright’s annual salary has nearly doubled since his rookie season with the Steelers.

This first contract was for a duration of three years with a total value of $1,760,000, which means a average annual salary of $586,667. He then signed a one-year contract, $780,000 contract with the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2021.

It was in Jacksonville that Wright experienced the greatest success of his NFL career to date. In October 2021, Wright scored two crucial fourth-quarter goals to snap Jags’ 20-game losing streak. Those two kicks were field goals of 53 and 54 yards.

“There’s no bad blood between us,” Wright said of Josh Lambo, the Jags kicker he replaced. “We’re both here to do the job, and we’re just competing, and he’s been really helpful, actually, in everything, because he’s had a pretty long and successful career, so he’s had some wise words for me.”

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