incumbent kicker after unsuccessful attempts in each of the past three years?" />Skip to main contentclockmenumore-arrownoyesAcme Packing Company homepageHorizontal - WhiteAcme Packing Companya Green Bay Packers communityFollow Acme Packing Company online:Follow Acme Packing Company on TwitterFollow Acme Packing Company on FacebookFollow Acme Packing Company on InstagramLog in or sign upLog InSign UpSite searchSearchSearchAcme Packing Company main menuFanpostsFanshotsSectionsPackersOddsAboutMastheadCommunity GuidelinesStubHubMoreAll 321 blogs on Horizontal - WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections The APC PodcastPackers Film RoomFantasy Football AdviceFicken finally find a way to unseat an incumbent kicker after unsuccessful attempts in each of the past three years?CDTShare this storyShare this on FacebookShare this on TwitterShareAll sharing optionsShareAll sharing options for:Packers 2019 Training Camp Roster: Mason Crosby gets competition againTwitterFacebookRedditPocketFlipboardEmailPhoto by Larry Radloff/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesIn 2019 Jake Ryan Jersey , the Green Bay Packers’ roster looks very different from how it appeared at the end of the 2018 season. A large group of free agents, draft picks, and undrafted rookies will come to training camp to challenge for roster spots and a role on the team’s regular season 53-man roster. Over two weeks, Acme Packing Company will break down the roster position-by-position and reveal our compiled predictions for the 53-man roster.The Green Bay Packers appear to have a single question among their specialists in 2019. The team has just one player on the roster at punter and long snapper, and those jobs appear all but locked in barring injury in training camp. However, the placekicking job is less certain.For the first time in half a decade, Mason Crosby has competition. His challenger, Sam Ficken, is familiar with his role: coming into training camp to provide a challenge for an incumbent. He has been unable to unseat the veteran in each of his last three stops, but if the two end up on equal footing by the end of August, there are about five million reasons why the Packers could end up making a change.Mason Crosby, KNFL Experience: 13th year in NFL2018 Stats: 30-37 FGs (81.7%), 34-36 PATs (94.4%)How Acquired: 6th-round pick in 2007 NFL DraftLast year, Crosby hit just under 82 percent of his field goals, the 8th time in his 12-year career that he has been under that mark. Green Bay is a difficult place to kick, to be sure, but Crosby’s career average is just over 80 percent. Furthermore, he has missed two or more PATs in four of the last five seasons. Granted, much of Crosby’s struggles in 2018 came in a single game — a 31-23 loss to the Detroit Lions. That day, he missed four of five field goal attempts and his only PAT attempt, while kicking inside at Ford Field. Outside of that game, he missed three field goals all year while going 5-of-7 from 50-plus yards, tying the best mark from that distance in his career (2013).Entering the final year of his contract, however, Crosby has a cap hit of $4.85 million, which is the highest cap hit among any player at his position in the NFL for the 2019 season. Given that Crosby has not converted his attempts at a top-five rate at any point in his career — he has never hit the 90% mark on field goals in a single season — it is fair to wonder if he returns for a 13th (and likely final) season with the team.JK Scott Lance Kendricks Color Rush Jersey , PNFL Experience: 2nd year in NFL2018 Stats: 71 punts, 3,176 yards gross, 44.7 gross average, 39.3 net average, 9 touchbacks, 19 punts inside the 20How Acquired: 5th-round pick in 2018 NFL DraftScott arrived in Green Bay last year as a highly-regarded draft pick and the second punter off the board behind Seattle’s selection of Michael Dickson. While Dickson earned All-Pro honors, Scott struggled to adjust to the pro game somewhat under Ron Zook’s tutelage. While he had a solid gross punting average, his net average was disappointing and he had trouble keeping balls between the 20 and the goal line.Scott should be a candidate for a second-year jump, however. Shawn Mennenga will undoubtedly be charged with figuring out how to coach Scott up into a upper-tier NFL punter. He has the leg (two college seasons with a gross average over 47 yards) and he has shown directional ability in the past, but now he needs to put it all together. Still, with no competition in camp, the job is his barring a complete meltdown.Hunter Bradley, LSNFL Experience: 2nd year in NFL2018 Stats: 1 solo tackle; 1 fumbleHow Acquired: 7th-round pick in 2018 NFL DraftLast year, Bradley more or less got the long snapper job by default after the Packers used a draft pick on him. He struggled a bit with a few wayward snaps in training camp, but seemed to be mostly consistent when the regular season rolled around. Now the team appears prepared to roll with him once again in 2019.Sam Ficken, KNFL Experience: First-year player (entered NFL in 2016)2018 Stats: 1-3 FGs (33.3%), 10-10 PATs (100%)How Acquired: Claimed off waivers from Seattle Seahawks in April 2019For the first time since 2013, the Packers brought in competition for Crosby in camp when they added Ficken to the roster in April. After a pair of brief stints with the Rams over the past two seasons when Greg Zuerlein was injured, the Penn State product enters training camp trying to unseat an incumbent veteran for the fourth straight year.Ficken made just one of three attempts last year, missing from 46 and 28 yards while hitting from 34. In college, Ficken struggled as a sophomore and junior, hitting around two-thirds of his field goals, before improving to go 24-for-29 (82.8%) as a senior. He will need to keep up with Crosby in training camp to have a shot, but given the veteran’s contract situation, Ficken at least has a chance. GREEN BAY https://www.thepackersfanshop.com/Davon-House-Jersey , Wis. — A pick, a penalty and a game-winning kick.Quite a final minute for the Green Bay Packers.More Packers coveragePhotos of the Week: 7/21/19 – 7/27/19Packers rookie Gary’s biggest critic is himselfTop Tweets: Former Badger TJ Watt has impressive four-year transformationPHOTOS: 2019 Green Bay Packers training campPackers’ Rodgers, LaFleur ironing out offense, building chemistryMason Crosby kicked a 27-yard field goal as time expired to cap an 81-yard drive set up by Kevin King’s interception with 1:07 left, and the Packers outlasted the San Francisco 49ers for a 33-30 win on Monday night.The final drive was extended after 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman was called for an illegal contact penalty on third-and-15 that wiped out a sack of Rodgers with 43 seconds left.Quarterback Aaron Rodgers rushed up the middle for a 21-yard gain on the next play. The two-time NFL MVP completed two more passes for 19 yards to set up Crosby’s game-winner for Green Bay (3-2-1).The veteran kicker was perfect a week after missing four field goals in a loss at Detroit.“It’s very appropriate, what he went through last week, (for) the team to stick with him,” Rodgers said. “And then he responded.”Rodgers threw for 425 yards and two scores.C.J. Beathard passed for 245 yards and two touchdowns for the 49ers (1-5).Beathard connected with speedy receiver Marquise Goodwin for two long scores, and for a while it looked like the 49ers might hold on for their first victory since quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo was lost for the year in Week 3 with a torn ACL.Turnovers hurt them again — three more on Monday night, but none bigger than King’s pick at the Packers 10.“Very disappointed. We had a chance to win that game,” coach Kyle Shanahan said. “It hurts.”The second-year cornerback was locked in 1-on-1 coverage with Goodwin, who had burned the secondary all night. This time, King kept up and pulled in a ball that looked slightly underthrown by Beathard.Then Rodgers went to work, aided by the penalty on Sherman, who was covering Davante Adams.Rodgers was 25 of 46. Adams had 10 catches for 132 yards, one of three Packers receivers to go over 100 yards.The Packers scored 10 points in the final 2 minutes, capped by Crosby’s fourth field goal of the night.“This week was a grind, it was one of the tougher weeks of my career,” Crosby said about bouncing back from his awful game last week.It’s just what the Packers needed going into their bye week.The late flurry overshadowed another troubling start by the defense.The Packers had 17-7 lead when Rodgers connected with Davante Adams for a 9-yard touchdown with 1:58 left in the first quarter.Then San Francisco just brushed past Green Bay.Beathard connected with Goodwin for the 67-yard score down the middle of the field on the ensuing series.The 30-yard score came with 6:05 left in the second. Goodwin celebrated by mimicking a long jump in the end zone.He finished with four catches for 126 yards. Beathard was 16 of 23.San Francisco also got more pressure after the first quarter, forcing the Packers into more third-and-long situations.Rodgers figured out the Niners in the end.“We had every opportunity to finish and win that game and we didn’t get it done,” Shanahan said.ANTHEMGoodwin appeared to be the only player on either team with an apparent sign of protest during the national anthem, raising a right first in the air.UP NEXT49ers: Host the unbeaten Los Angeles Rams on Sunday.Packers: After a bye week, Green Bay visits the Rams on Oct. 28.