Baltimore Ravens won't try out competitors for Justin Tucker - ESPN

OWINGS MILLS, Md. — For a dozen seasons, Justin Tucker raised the bar for NFL kickers, whether it was accuracy, long-distance field goals or clutch kicks. Now, he's struggling to meet the high standards that he established.

Tucker's two missed field goals weighed heavily in the Baltimore Ravens' 18-16 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, which extended one of the worst slumps of his career and dropped him from being the most accurate kicker in NFL history.

On Monday, Ravens coach John Harbaugh said there are no plans to bring in competition for Tucker.

«The best option right now is to get Justin back on point because he is fully capable of doing it,» Harbaugh said. «We certainly haven't lost any confidence in Justin Tucker.»

Tucker, a seven-time Pro Bowl kicker, missed from 47 and 50 yards on Sunday before hitting a 54-yard field goal. His conversion rate for this season has fallen to 72.7%, which is his lowest ever 11 games into a season.

His six misses are one more than he totaled all last season and are one shy of tying his career worst. He failed on seven attempts in 2015, when he was 33-of-40.

«He's going to get it figured out,» Harbaugh said. «We have coaches, we have technique. We look at the tape and he's practicing well. He's got to kick it straight.»

The troublesome trend is Tucker has missed five field goals in Baltimore's four losses this season. He didn't convert a 56-yard field goal in a three-point loss to the Las Vegas Raiders (26-23) in Week 2, and he then failed on two attempts in a two-point loss to the Steelers on Sunday.

On Sunday, Tucker missed multiple kicks for just the sixth time in 206 career games, which put him in an unfamiliar place. For one of the rare times over the last eight years,