Will Reichard injury update: NBC broadcast gives worrisome news on Vikings kicker

It’s been a rough night for Minnesota Vikings kicker Will Reichard. He’s missed two of his field goal attempts, with one of them drilling the upright. After his most recent kickoff in the Vikings-Colts game on Sunday Night Football, the broadcast showed him limping a bit after the kick. The NBC broadcast updated his status and noted that he’s been battling a right thigh injury.

Reichard has been putting a heating pad on it and has been in and out of the medical tent on Sunday evening. He also had a noticeable limp on the field. The Vikings currently lead the Colts 21-10 in the fourth quarter.

He hadn’t missed a kick all season long before Sunday Night Football. But Reichard was clearly in pain on a number of occasions during the game.

Coming into the game with the Colts, Reichard drilled 14 of his 14 field goal attempts, while hitting 20 of his 20 extra points in the 2024 campaign.

More on Will Reichard and his college career

Reichard was a star at Alabama. The Crimson Tide star made 84 of his 100 field-goal attempts and was nearly perfect in career extra points, making all but two of his 297 tries. It’s all why he set an NCAA record for points scored with 547.

The Vikings selected him in the fifth round of April’s NFL Draft. He’s now the only kicker on the roster, so he’s earned his spot. Greg Joseph had been the Vikings kicker for the past three seasons. But he signed with the Packers in the off season.

Minnesota had been looking at XFL kicker John Parker Romo, who had spent time in a number of NFL training camps throughout his career. But the Vikings waived him earlier this summer, leaving Reichard as the only kicker.

In the offseason, Reichard told reporters that he wasn’t thinking about anything other than kicking.

“I’m just trying to put my best foot forward and trying to find the best version of myself every day I come out here and trying to get 1 percent better every single day,” the Vikings rookie said. Wherever that takes me, it sort of takes me. I’m just trying to find a way to be the best version of myself.”

On3’s Suzanne Halliburton also contributed to this article.