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Pittsburgh Steelers make roster move involving former Jaguars kicker

275133747_4796292347117549_592518599057046758_nby:Jonathan Wagner•11/09/21•

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The Pittsburgh Steelers have released kicker Josh Lambo. Pittsburgh signed Lambo to the team’s practice squad last week after starting kicker Chris Boswell was knocked out of last week’s game with a concussion.

The Steelers were forced to finish last week’s game against the Browns without a kicker as Boswell went through the concussion protocol. With Boswell questionable for much of the week for the Steelers’ Monday Night Football matchup against the Bears, Lambo was added to the practice squad as an insurance policy.

Lambo’s Steelers career was a short one

Kickers usually don’t suffer major injuries, especially not concussions. Boswell was the unfortunate victim of a fake field goal attempt. On fourth and nine in Browns territory, Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin called for a fake field goal. Boswell got the snap and rolled right, and eventually threw an incompletion. He was hit helmet to helmet and knocked out of the game.

Boswell was listed as questionable for Monday night’s game throughout the week.

Lambo’s stint with the Steelers was short lived, and it is the second time this season he has been released. He began the year with the Jaguars, missing all three of his field goal attempts and missing two of his seven extra point attempts in three games.

Lambo’s lack of success this year has not been something he is accustomed to. He kicked for five seasons in Jacksonville, making 91.6 percent of his field goal attempts. That is the highest percentage in Jaguars history. Lambo began his career with the Chargers in 2015 after kicking at Texas A&M in college. In his career, he has made 87.1 percent of his field goal attempts.

With the kicking position being so random throughout the last couple of seasons, Lambo could get another opportunity to latch on somewhere at some point. But Lambo won’t get that opportunity with the Steelers. Boswell is set in stone as Pittsburgh’s kicker. He has missed just four field goals since the start of the 2019 season.