{"id":56629,"date":"2021-08-16T20:17:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T00:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=56629"},"modified":"2021-08-16T23:36:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T03:36:23","slug":"jets-waive-pk-chris-naggar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2021\/08\/16\/jets-waive-pk-chris-naggar\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Waive PK Chris Naggar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the search continues.<\/p>\n<p>After years of one-year rentals at the kicker position with very little luck as of late, the New York Jets have waived rookie undrafted free agent kicker Chris Naggar.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have waived K Chris Naggar.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dBMQ3uiySp\">https:\/\/t.co\/dBMQ3uiySp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Jets (@nyjets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyjets\/status\/1427286575759699978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Naggar (5-11, 193), who signed with the Green &amp; White in May as an undrafted free agent out of SMU, made a 30-yard field goal against the Giants in Saturday&#8217;s preseason game and missed a 53-yard attempt. He began his career at Texas from 2016-19 before transferring in state to SMU. He went 17 for 21 on field goals in the 2020 season (81%), and made 43 of 46 extra points (93.5%).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After a poor showing against the Giants in the team&#8217;s pre-season opener, the Jets quickly moved on and now have just one kicker on the roster in Matt Ammendola who has never kicked in an NFL game.<\/p>\n<p>Expect the Jets to keep their eyes open for any potential cuts from other clubs that could allow them to add a more experienced and proven leg.<\/p>\n<p>While Ammendola is noted for having a powerful leg, he represents another roll of the dice for Joe Douglas who has allowed the position to become a thorn in the club&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the search continues. After years of one-year rentals at the kicker position with very little luck as of late, the New York Jets have waived rookie undrafted free agent kicker Chris Naggar. We have waived K Chris Naggar. \ud83d\udcf0 https:\/\/t.co\/dBMQ3uiySp &mdash; New York Jets (@nyjets) August 16, 2021 Naggar (5-11, 193), who signed with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":56631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[213],"tags":[3329],"class_list":{"0":"post-56629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jet-news","8":"tag-chris-naggar"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Chris-Naggar.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-eJn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56632,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56629\/revisions\/56632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}