Los Angeles Chargers: Three questions entering preseason week 1

3. Who is going to win the starting kicking job?

It literally was the field goal unit that kept the Los Angeles Chargers from making the playoffs last season. The Chargers finished with a 9-7 record and lost the three-way tiebreaker to the Buffalo Bills.

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However, turn the clock back all the way to week 2 and rookie kicker, Younghoe Koo, missed an easy go-ahead field goal that would have given the Chargers the win over the Miami Dolphins. Just that one kick right there and the Chargers could have been 10-6.

However, it does not stop there. While this one was not Koo’s fault, in week one the Chargers were looking to send the game to overtime against the Denver Broncos. That was until the kick was blocked. While anything could have happened in overtime, the Chargers had the momentum and likely would have won.

That is two games that the team dropped because of kicking problems, which has obviously made the kicker position a huge priority heading into the season.

Battling it out for the job is former Philadelphia Eagles kicker, Caleb Sturgis, and former Tampa Bay Buccaneers kicker, Roberto Aguayo.

Sturgis is the obvious favorite heading into the preseason and is currently listed as the team’s starting kicker. However, Aguayo still has a massive leg and if he can find his zone he can easily make the push for the starting job.

Regardless, Chargers’ fans do not care who it is as long as they can make the field goals they should make. Kickers are far from perfect and it is unfair to expect that, however, what the Los Angeles Chargers got last season was downright criminal.