Just a few weeks after his wild botched field-goal attempt, Younghoe Koo is out in New York.
The Giants waived the kicker Tuesday, ending his short run with the franchise this season. Koo spent five games with the Giants, and marked the third kicker the team has used this campaign.
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While a waived kicker isn’t the biggest news, especially for a Giants team with a 2-12 record that is currently on pace to receive the No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft next spring, Koo’s exit came just weeks after a ridiculous missed field-goal attempt.
Koo, in the first half of the team’s 33-15 loss to the New England Patriots on Dec. 1, went to kick a 47-yard field goal. He completely missed the ball, and kicked just the turf instead. Holder Jamie Gillan had to scramble with it before getting tackled well behind the line of scrimmage.
It was the type of mistake rarely seen in the NFL.
“As I was driving to it, the bottom of the ball was slipping, so I pulled up on it,” Koo said after the game.
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Koo missed two field-goal attempts, both from longer than 50 yards, in the team’s 29-21 loss to the Washington Commanders on Sunday. The 31-year-old, who started the season with the Atlanta Falcons, is 6-of-9 on field goals this season and 13-of-14 on extra points.
The Giants will turn to a fourth kicker to close out the season. They had Graham Gano start the year, but had to turn to Gillan briefly due to injury.
The Giants will enter Sunday’s game with the Minnesota Vikings on an eight-game losing skid with the worst record in the league. They have already been eliminated from the playoffs for a third straight season.
