The Patriots are expected to sign veteran kicker Kai Forbath to replace Nick Folk, sources tell ESPN.com’s Field Yates (on Twitter). With that, Forbath will serve as the Pats’ kicker against the Texans on Sunday. 
On Thursday, we learned that Folk will miss one game as he recovers from an appendectomy. The surgery was minimally invasive, so the belief is that he will be ready to roll against the Chiefs on December 8.
Forbath kicked in three games for the Jaguars last season and served as the Vikings’ full-time kicker in 2017. For his career, Forbath has made 85.7% of his field goal tries for the Redskins, Saints, Vikes, and Jaguars.
In other Pats news, the club released tackle Jared Veldheer from the reserve/retired list earlier this week. Despite his injury issues, the nine-year veteran is reportedly in good shape and could profile as an emergency fill-in for a contender in need.
Why is Veldheer mentioned here? He’s already been claimed by GB
No offense but it’s Zach Links, are you shocked?
He’s probably gonna delete the last paragraph and not mention anything about it, so here it is for you guys: “In other Pats news, the club released tackle Jared Veldheer from the reserve/retired list earlier this week. Despite his injury issues, the nine-year veteran is reportedly in good shape and could profile as an emergency fill-in for a contender in need.”
It seems like they never fix anything on this site much less respond to comments like on the baseball side…..
How much are you paying to use this site?
It sounds like he lost out on the free Thanksgiving turkey draw.
No mention that they were high school teammates?! That’s a missed lay up on this article
Again, Zach Links.
Kai Forbath should have been the Patriots first choice.
Hopefully he has a great game and is the answer at K for the Pats!
So Sunday night it’s Ka’imi Fairbairn & Kai Forbath as kickers. Both went to UCLA. I thought they were the same guy who changed his name slightly to get signed, since as Kai he’d already played for 5 teams including the Saints twice. I guess we’ll find out Sunday.
After the disaster that was John Lee, I’m surprised any team would look to UCLA for a kicker.
This is a stupid ?
But y can’t punters kick field goals
I mean Bailey is doing kick offs could he do field goals
Everything is specialized now. You need a separate player just to snap the ball on punts. The game has changed a lot since you had great players like Sammy Baugh who could do all the kicking, play QB and also play as a defensive back.