Dallas Cowboys: 3 Free agents that can replace kicker Brett Maher

1. Kai Forbath

The final kicker to consider is one who actually started his career with the Dallas Cowboys. Undrafted in 2011 out of UCLA, Forbath was one of several kickers that season trying to win a job — after they tried to roll with David Buehler in 2010. In addition to Buehler and Forbath, Dallas had Shayne Graham and Dave Rayner. Most of those players were sent packing as the Boys went with another undrafted kicker in Dan Bailey.

As for Forbath, he stuck with the team as he was placed on the injured reserve allowing him to spend his rookie season healing up. Dallas was also protecting themselves just in case Bailey didn’t pan out as Forbath was the more impressive kicker in college.

Of course, Bailey ended up holding the job down for years and Forbath went on to become a journeyman. He had a cup of tea with the Tampa Bay Bucs before finding a home with the Washington Redskins. He spent four seasons there before again landing with the Minnesota Vikings for two seasons — while also playing a few games with Jacksonville and 10 with New Orleans in there.

For his career, Forbath has hit on 120-of-140 kicks which is good for an impressive 85.7 percent overall. The problem for him though has been his extra points. In two seasons with Minnesota, he hit on 47-of-53 field goals (88.7 percent) but missed eight extra points as he was 45-of-53 (84.7 percent).

Those tough seasons on extra points seems to be a fluke as he had just three more misses in his eight total season. Really, there’s no reason Forbath shouldn’t have a job right now and Dallas would be wise to bring him back to where his career started.