Start Cameron Dicker over Jason Myers — Week 1 Start/Sit Verdict

Start Dicker — the game script and consensus rank edges are too wide to ignore.

Cameron Dicker plays in the better game script (28.5 implied team points to 24.0) and is the higher consensus play (K2 to K5). No signal favors Myers this week. The gap is comfortable.

Cameron Dicker

K2LACvs ARI

10.310.310.3 Projected Points

Start· high

Jason Myers

K5SEAvs NE

9.49.49.4 Projected Points

Start

Why Cameron Dicker

Start· high

Starting kicker with elite accuracy and big-leg range. Among the league's most reliable placekickers.

K2 on the board with a 28.5 implied total in a dome, 93% accuracy and 1.8 red-zone stalls per game feeding steady FG tries.

Kicks indoors — no weather risk.
2.3 FG tries projected, just over the 2.0 league median this week.
LAC's offense stalls in the red zone 1.8 times a game (2025) — that's where kicker points come from.
Vegas has LAC at 28.5 points as 11.5-point favorites.

The call

Dicker is the K2 consensus play at 10.3 projected points and the locked PK1 with no injury designation — nothing to think about at the position.
A 28.5 implied team total and -11.5 spread means volume: 3.1 projected extra points plus 2.3 field-goal attempts, and the offense stalls in the red zone 1.8 times per game to create those tries.
Indoors with no weather risk, and he's hit 38 of 41 (93%) with a 59-yard long and five games with a 50-plus make — the range keeps low-end outcomes off the table.

Why Jason Myers

Start

Veteran starting kicker. Long-tenured, high-volume leg with proven range.

Start — K5 consensus and projection: 1.6 red-zone stalls a game, and 9.4 pts projected vs NE.

2.3 FG tries projected, just over the 2.0 league median this week.
SEA's offense stalls in the red zone 1.6 times a game (2025) — that's where kicker points come from.
Vegas has SEA at 24 points as 3.5-point favorites.
85% on field goals (2025), with a 50-plus make in 7 games.

Latest on Myers

Seattle Seahawks vs. Kansas City Chiefs Game Highlights

ESPN · Aug 28, 2026

Reported by the sources listed — not independently verified.

Head-to-head stats

Metric	Cameron Dicker	Jason Myers
Projected points	10.310.310.3	9.49.49.4
Consensus rank	K2	K5
Projected FG attempts	2.3	2.3
Red-zone stalls / game	1.8(2025)	1.6(2025)
Kicking conditions	Indoors, no weather risk	—
Implied total · spread	28.5-11.5	24.0-3.5
Field-goal %	92.7%(2025)	85.4%(2025)
Depth chart	K1	K1