The Baltimore Ravens have two good field goal kickers and Kaare Vedvik is the one that is available:
Kaare Vedvik is looking impressive in his second preseason as a kicker for the Baltimore Ravens. The Ravens have every incentive to let Vedvik do his thing this preseason. The Ravens know that Justin Tucker is the best kicker in the game and he doesn’t need a preseason to be ready for week 1. The Ravens also know that they aren’t going to keep two kickers on the 53 man roster. Vedvik is auditioning for another team and the Ravens have to use it to their advantage.
Vedvik was 4-4 kicking field goals for the purple and black against the Jacksonville Jaguars. He also had two punts for 111 yards. The Chicago Bears lost in the playoffs because of their field goal kicker. They are a team that could be tempted into this kind of a deal. The Bears were even mentioned in this regard during Gerry Sandusky’s call for 98 Rock and WBAL.
The Ravens should let Vedvik do all the kicking all preseason long. We all know that Tucker and Sam Koch are going to be the placekicker and the punter week 1 against the Miami Dolphins. There is no reason to let anybody else kick this preseason.
Vedvik put every field goal attempt right on the money. He wasn’t just making them, he was making them the way that Tucker does. It’s that effortless look to it that makes it seem like an automatic splitting of the uprights.
Vedvik has such a small sample size of work and he’s done so well that he’s becoming a hot commodity. There is going to be a team that has to have Vedvik to solve their kicking woes. If the Ravens are smart they will let Vedvik raise his value with another great performance next Thursday.
The more Vedvik does, the more this kind of trade talk picks up steam. The better Vedvik does the better the trade compensation is. The truth is that we don’t know what kind of compensation the Ravens could get here. It’s not like there is a long history of trading backup kickers. The Ravens can turn a player who wasn’t going to make the 53 man roster into a draft pick.
The Ravens should be able to get something out of Vedvik in a trade. The rest of the NFL should take note, Vedvik is on the trading block.