Aug 27, 2020 3 min read

“Hausch Money” is no more in Buffalo after the Bills released veteran kicker Stephen Hauschka in a money-saving move favoring youth on Thursday.

The 35-year-old Hauschka was the odd-man out in a kicking competition with Tyler Bass, a rookie sixth-round draft pick out of Georgia Southern. Bass caught the Bills attention with his powerful leg during the school’s pro day, and after he finished his four-year college career hitting 54 of 68 field-goal attempts.

Bass showed off his ability by hitting three consecutive attempts from beyond 50 yards during practice two weeks ago, while Hauschka missed all three.

Hauschka has 12 seasons of NFL experience, with the past three in Buffalo. He was due to make $4.475 million in base salary over the final two years of his contract.

He picked up the nickname during his first season in Buffalo in 2018, when he hit 17 consecutive field-goal attempts – the most by a Bills player since 2007.

He showed signs of struggling the past two years in which he finished both seasons hitting just 22 of 28 attempts for a field-goal percentage of 78.6 – his lowest in a full season. Hauschka was especially inconsistent in hitting just one of five attempts from 50 yards or longer.

Dungy added to Hall of Fame selectors: Tony Dungy has been added to the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s selection committee, the fourth hall member to become part of the voting process.

Dungy joins Bill Polian, James Lofton and Dan Fouts on the panel.

The first African-American head coach to win a Super Bowl, Dungy was enshrined into the hall in 2016 following a 13-

The Pro Football Hall of Fame’s 48-person selection panel consists of one media representative from each pro football city (two from New York and two from Los Angeles), and 16 at-large selectors, who are active members of the media or people “intricately involved in professional football, including one representative of the Pro Football Writers of America.

Sheriff: Missing dad of Bengals player found safe: The missing father of Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Mackensie Alexander turned up early Thursday at a ranger station at a Florida state park, sheriff’s officials said.

Jean Alexandre, 65, was reported to be in good health and will be reunited with this family, the Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office said in a Twitter post Thursday morning..

“We are all relieved and grateful that he was found, and that he was found well,” Brian Pakett, an attorney representing Mackensie Alexander, told the Associated Press. “That was my client’s sole concern.”

Alexandre’s son, cornerback Mackensie Alexander, was jailed Wednesday on a misdemeanor battery charge after deputies say he beat up a man shortly after returning to Florida to help search for his missing father.