Bills reveal plans for kicker Tyler Bass after injury-ruined season

The Buffalo Bills didn't get a single kick out of their planned starting kicker during the 2025 NFL regular season or playoffs.

Tyler Bass kicked in one preseason game, and that was it. He missed the rest of the season with injury problems.

That meant Matt Prater kicked most of the year, including his game-winning kick at the end of the epic Week 1 comeback victory.

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The Bills also had a couple weeks with Michael Badgley out there while Prater was hurt, and Prater continued to battle injuries during the postseason while playing through them.

This all raised at least some question about who the Bills' kicker of the future is.

Turns out, Bass is the guy.

“I would expect Tyler Bass to be our kicker in ‘26," Bills GM Brandon Beane said, via Matt Parrino of Syracuse.com.

Beane added the Bass is close to 100% now, and if the Bills had made the Super Bowl, there would've been a conversation about him kicking in place of the injury-troubled Prater.

The Bills have money committed to Bass going forward, so it makes sense that they'd operate with the plan in place for him to be the man.

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More often than not, Bass has been reliable for Buffalo, which ends up being not the easiest place to kick in the second half of the season due to the elements.

It's also a bit nerve-wracking for Bills Mafia after a whole season of not having Bass to just trust that he'll be good to go.

But the Buffalo medical staff certainly knows what his scoop is, and if Bass is cleared, he'll be kicking in 2026 for the Bills.

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