Giants Waive K Younghoe Koo Just Weeks After Wild Botched Field Goal Attempt

Just a few weeks after his wild botched field goal attempt, Younghoe Koo is out in New York.

The Giants waived the kicker on Tuesday, ending his short run with the franchise this season. Koo spent just five games with the Giants, and marked the third kicker that the team has used already this campaign.

While a waived kicker isn’t the biggest news, especially for a Giants team with just a 2-12 record that is currently on pace to receive the No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft next spring, Koo’s exit came just weeks after a ridiculous missed field goal attempt.

Koo, in the first half of the team’s 33-15 loss to the New England Patriots earlier this season, went to kick a 47-yard field goal. But Koo completely missed the ball, and just kicked the turf instead. The ball was never kicked, and holder Jamie Gillan had to scramble with it before getting tackled well behind the line of scrimmage.

It was the type of mistake rarely seen at the NFL level.

“As I was driving to it, the bottom of the ball was slipping, so I pulled up on it,” Koo said after the game.

Koo missed two field goal attempts, both from longer than 50 yards, in the team’s 29-21 loss to the Washington Commanders on Sunday, too. The 31-year-old, who started the season with the Atlanta Falcons, is now 6-of-9 on field goals this season and 13-of-14 on extra points.

The Giants will now have to turn to a fourth kicker to close out the season. They had Graham Gano start the year, but had to turn to Jamie Gillan briefly due to injury.

The Giants will enter Sunday’s game with the Minnesota Vikings on an eight-game losing skid with the worst record in the league. They have already been eliminated from the playoffs for a third straight season, too.