The Jacksonville Jaguars have signed K Kai Forbath, the team announced today. To make room on the roster, the club placed rookie LB Leon Jacobs (quadricep) on the team’s reserve/injured list.
According to Jaguars head coach Doug Marrone, K Josh Lambo injured his right groin on Thursday.
“It happened yesterday, so we just have to make sure,” Marrone said on Friday. “We don’t really know how it’s going to go. It’s not a lot of time between now and Sunday for an injury like that to occur. We’re just going to take it day by day and right up until game time.”
Forbath, who entered the NFL in 2011 as an undrafted free agent with Dallas and first played with Washington from 2012-15, was most recently with Minnesota from 2016-17. He has made 116 of 135 career FGs (85.9 pct.) and 169 of 180 PATs (93.9 PAT pct.). In 2017, Forbath connected on 32 of 38 FGs (84.2 pct.) with the Vikings in the regular season and 3 of 4 FGs in the playoffs.