ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The Buffalo Bills provided Tyler Bass with some competition for his job this week.
Buffalo added place kicker Lucas Havrisik to its practice squad on Thursday. Havrisik played in nine games last season for the Los Angeles Rams, making 15 of 20 field goals and 19 of 22 point-after tries.
The move come came one day after Bills general manager Brandon Beane, who was largely speaking about newly acquired wide receiver Amari Cooper, discussed how the kicking game could be improved.
"It is a production business. He knows he's got to make those kicks. I think Sean (McDermott) said that. No one's hiding from it," Beane said.
"But at the same time, he hasn't done as well as he or we had hoped so, you know, we've got to continue to look, and monitor, and if there's a better option that we have to turn to, then we'll do that."
Bass is 9 of 12 on field goals this season and 18 of 20 on point-after tries. He missed a field goal and an extra-point attempt during Monday night's 23-20 win against the New York Jets.
Beane confirmed at the end of Wednesday's news conference that the Bills brought in other kickers for tryouts.
"T-Bass would be the first to tell you it hasn't gone the way he would like it or, quite frankly, the way we like it," Beane said. "But the great thing about Tyler is he, you know, we've had conversations with him. He's very aware, he knows we're working out people, and he understands it's a production business. You have to make decisions on what's best for the team."