An injury the Kansas City Chiefs will have Anders Carlson on Sunday for the New York Jets.

Kansas City placed Kicker Harrison Butker on injured reserve Thursday with a torn meniscus in his left knee. To replace Butker, the Chiefs signed Spencer Shrader off the New York practice squad.

That left Carlson as the only player on the Jets roster. First BROWN standout is on New York’s practice squad and will be elevated to active status to start Sunday when the Jets play the Indianapolis Colts at noon CST at MetLife Field in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

“We’re confident Anders can do it,” the New York coach said Jeff Ulbrich said Friday. “He looked really good out there today. It was a windy day, a day that was challenging in many ways and he did a good job’

Carlson will be the fourth hitter in four games for the Jets.

New York placed Greg Zuerlein on injured reserve with a left knee injury on Oct. 30 after he missed a 44-yard field goal attempt and an extra point attempt in a 25-22 loss in the New England Patriots face of the Jets. the previous game.

The same day Zuerlein went on IR, New York signed Shrader and Riley Patterson to the practice squad and used Patterson the next day in a 21-13 win over the Houston Texans on October 31. Patterson made all three of his kicks – all extra points. . Houston returned four kickoffs for 106 yards after New York’s opponents returned five kickoffs for 111 yards in the first eight games.

On November 8, the Jets released Patterson and signed Carlson for their training team. Shrader got the call for New York’s game against the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday and provided all the scoring with two field goals in a 31-6 loss.

Carlson came to the Jets after hitting in two games for the San Francisco 49ers. San Francisco signed Carlson after losing kickers Jake Moody and Matthew Wright in back-to-back games while making tackles on kickoffs.

As a practice squad member, Carlson made all five of his field goal attempts and 3 of 4 extra point attempts while kicking for San Francisco in a 28–18 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs on October 20 and 30 . 24 win over the Dallas Cowboys on October 27th. Carlson made a career-long 55-yard field goal against Kansas City.

With Moody ready to return from injury, the 49ers released Carlson on November 6.