The Colts have cut kicker Eddy Pineiro (Twitter link via Adam Schefter of ESPN.com). That leaves Rodrigo Blankenship as Indy’s top leg moving forward and puts a decent kicker on the waiver wire just before the start of the season. 
Pineiro was perfect throughout the preseason but the Colts have decided to go in another direction. Pineiro joined the Colts back in May and seemed to have a real chance of unseating Blankenship. The UDFA out of Georgia was shaky throughout 2020, going just 1-of-3 from 50+ yards. Blankenship was supposed to be an accuracy kicker, but he also had a few critical misses from close range. To his credit, he did go 43 of 45 on extra point tries.
Pineiro appeared in all 16 of the Bears’ 2019 games, going 23-of-28 on field goals (82.1%) and 27-of-29 XPs. He’s perhaps best known for the trade that sent him from the Raiders to the Bears, furnishing Las Vegas with an extra seventh-round draft choice.
The rest of the league will have 24 hours to claim Pineiro. If he goes unclaimed, he’ll be free to sign with any club.
Better to be a punter. Sure they get cut just as much as a kicker. But no one remembers a shanked punt. Missed FG is entirely different, right Buffalo!
Not a bills fan but I am from Buffalo. Can confirm this. Bills fans haven’t stopped drinking since the 90s. Had a bills fan ask me when Jim Kelly got so quick, I had to explain to him that was Tyrod Taylor.
Hopefully this conversation didn’t happen recently. Taylor hasn’t been on your team since 2017.
It’s true there is more pressure on a kicker but when was the last (or first) time anyone carried a punter off the field in a victory celebration?
Hopeful that Cleveland takes a shot at him. I’m not confident in McCrane being my place kicker…
Mclaughlin I think you meant
Vikings need to call him
Vikings wont want him…they like to give up draft picks to move up and then cut the K in about 2 months……the assets the Vikes have used on Kickers in recent years is idiotic.
To just get a guy for $$$ without giving up more assets isn’t in the Vikings DNA.
I think that move is called the Viking Funeral.