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Shaun Calderon

Update on Titans’ kicker competition following minicamp

As we slowly inch closer to Tennessee Titans training camp in late July, there will be a lot of position battles to keep an eye on.

While most people will focus on the competitions on offense and defense, Tennessee’s special teams unit has a significant position battle of its own.

Right now, the Titans have two kickers on their roster who only have a combined one game of NFL experience between the two of them.

Caleb Shudak has one contest under his belt, going two-of-three in his only professional outing last season. Meanwhile, while Trey Wolff is a 2023 UDFA who is trying to steal the job away from a 2022 UDFA.

In a recent mailbag article, Jim Wyatt of Titans Online stated that Wolff was getting the majority of the work for a “stretch,” but the Iowa product did get back to kicking throughout minicamp.

Here is what Wyatt had to say about the kicking competition, including his count for makes and misses:

Caleb is back and kicking again. It was interesting to see kicker Trey Wolff get most of the work for a stretch there, but Caleb kicked on Wednesday and Thursday of this week’s minicamp. I’ve been charting the field goals in the open periods, and Shudak is 14-of-15, while Wolff, who signed as an undrafted free agent from Texas Tech earlier this offseason, is 29-of-32 during the open periods. Both of those guys have kicked well so far.

Judging by those numbers, this battle is practically as even as can be. Shudak may have a smaller sample size, but he has made approximately 93 percent of his kicks. Meanwhile, Wolff has a larger sample size but a slightly lower field goal percentage (approximately 90 percent).

Longtime beat writer, Paul Kuharsky, provided this nugget in terms of what he’s seen so far from both kickers:

This battle likely won’t be settled until the preseason, but as of right now, this could go either way.

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