Patriots Give Major Update On Stephen Gostkowski’s Future With The Team

Stephen Gostkowski is on a good way to continue his tenure with the New England Patriots.

The kicker and the organization are a step closer to reaching a new deal, as reported by Tom E. Curran of NBC Sports Boston. Curran added that Stephen doesn’t even think of retiring, and signing with a different team isn’t part of his plans.

This doesn’t come as a surprise as there were so many signs pointing out to the possible reunion. Spotract suggests that Gostkowski will ink a deal worth $3.8 million a year. The total deal may be a two-year contract worth $7.75 million.

Gostkowski has never been an unrestricted free agent, and he came off a four-year contract worth $17.2 million. In his career, Gostkowski was successful in 87.4-percent of his field goals, 98.9-percent of his extra point attempts and is great on kickoffs. Last year, he had 27 of 32 goal attempts and was 49 of 50 on extra points. In his playoff career, Gostkowski netted 88 of his 92 extra point attempts and 39 of his 44 field goal attempts. He was part of three Super Bowl wins of the Patriots.

“Steve has been tremendously consistent,” head coach Bill Belichick told OMF. “He works hard. He trains well. He is in good shape. He has a strong leg. He is very poised and disciplined. He doesn’t get rattled. He doesn’t get that high on the big kicks and doesn’t get that low if something goes wrong. He is really steady and consistent. I’ve been so fortunate here to have two great, great kickers. I have never really worried about that position, thankfully.”

This isn’t the first time he praises Gostkowski.

“Steve’s been great to work with. I think he showed an incredible amount of maturity and poise his rookie year. He came into probably as difficult a situation as any player that I’ve ever – rookie player – that I’ve brought on to a team with the expectations that were with him and, obviously, with what Adam [Vinatieri] had done before he was here.

“Steve’s been really consistent through all of these years. [He’s] a very hard worker, has earned the respect of his teammates, he does everything that the team does in terms of training and conditioning and so forth. He’s not on a special kicker program or anything like that. [He’s] very accountable, dependable, physically and mentally tough player.”