The 2025 NFL Wild Card Game between the Houston Texans and the Los Angeles Chargers at NRG Stadium on Saturday (January 11) is expected to be one of the most frequent games of the round hard-fought encounterswhat can give the roles of Ka’imi Fairbairn and added Cameron Dickerthe respective placekickers of the teams.

The Texans (10-7) won the AFC South but were clearly the weakest department heads at the conference. The Chargers (11-6) finished the regular season with a better overall record than Houston but were blown away by the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC West, which led to them take the first wild card spot.

A close encounter is predicted which could bring the possibility of one into play Either Fairbairn or Dicker steal the show with a game-winning kick.

Fairbairn’s Texans kicking stats in the 2024 regular season

In his eighth year with the Texans Fairbairn’s kicks continued to be an integral part of his team’s games. The Hawaii-born star has found success in his 17 regular-season appearances made 42 field goals, setting his career high previous sentence in the 2018 season.

Fairbairn made 36 of those 42 attempts for a field goal percentage of 85.7%, which is only his fifth-best return. However, This season’s tally of 142 points is only surpassed by his 2018 season when he scored 150 points.

However, he did Miss twice from 28 yards or less in the recently concluded regular season, including a potential game-winning kick against the Titans.

How much does Ka’imi Fairbairn make at the Texans?

After going unselected in the 2016 draft, Fairbairn signed with the Texans, who named him their starting kicker the following year. Since then he has remained in that role and signed on Contract extensions in March 2020 and March 2024.

He agreed to the last of these a three-year contract worth $15.9 million$11.06 million of that is guaranteed, which will keep him moving forward End of the 2026 season.

According to Spotrac, Fairbairn will earn a base salary of $4.73 million in 2025with a cap hit of just under $6.375 million and a dead cap value of almost $7.68 million.

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