Titans Sign K Joey Slye

With Nick Folk unsigned, the Titans are bringing in a veteran kicker. Joey Slye has agreed to a Tennessee deal, per his agent (via Ian Rapoport of NFL Network).

Slye has seen regular season game action with five teams during his career. He finished the 2021 campaign as the Commanders’ kicker, and his success in that brief stretch allowed him to continue in the role for another two seasons. Slye departed in free agency last offseason, joining the Patriots in May shortly after his Jaguars release.

That move set up a competition between the Virginia Tech product and Chad Ryland for training camp and the preseason. Slye won out, and as a result he served as New England’s kicker for the campaign. He connected on 26 of 33 field goal attempts, yielding a success rate under 80% for the second year in a row. For his career, the 28-year-old has converted 81.7% of his field goal tries and connected on 89.6% of his extra point attempts.

Folk’s seven-year New England run came to an end in the 2023 offseason when the Patriots (having drafted Ryland) traded him to the Titans. That move gave Tennessee a strong option in the kicking game, as Folk missed only one field goal during his debut campaign with the team. The 40-year-old re-signed last March, and he led the NFL in field goal percentage once again in 2024 with a 95.5% conversion rate. Folk is still a free agent; he intends to continue playing next season and would welcome another Titans contract.

In addition to Slye, though, Tennessee also has Brayden Narveson in the fold at the kicker position. The latter was waived by the Titans and began the 2024 campaign in Green Bay, but he was quickly let go once again. That led Narveson back to Tennessee on a practice squad deal, and he made one regular season appearance before signing a new deal in December. Today’s move means Slye and Narveson will be in place to compete during the offseason while it remains to be seen where Folk will play in 2025.