Harrison Butker drills a 69-yard field goal in the Chiefs' preseason win over the Buccaneers

Harrison Butker sent the Arrowhead crowd home with something to talk about on Saturday night. On the final play of the first half against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Kansas City Chiefs kicker drilled a 69-yard field goal that cleared the crossbar by a few yards.

Adam Schefter flagged the kick shortly after it sailed through, and the celebration on the Kansas City sideline told the story: everyone understood what it would have meant. Had this been a regular-season game, Butker's 69-yarder would have set a new NFL record. The current mark belongs to Jacksonville's Cam Little, who connected from 68 yards against the Raiders on November 2 of last season. Little also made a 70-yard attempt as time expired in a 2025 preseason game against the Steelers — proof that the long-ball record book now has an asterisked preseason chapter of its own.

Chiefs beat writer Matt Derrick captured the moment live, and later noted the strange twist of the night: after all that leg strength, a penalty backed Kansas City into a 43-yard extra point that Butker doinked off the upright. As Derrick put it, it's the preseason, so nothing matters.

Butker wasn't done with the deep stuff before halftime. He also made field goals of 45 and 58 yards in the first half as the Chiefs built a 9-0 lead over Tampa Bay. Three makes, including two from beyond 55, is exactly the kind of kicking night that separates contenders in close January games — even if none of it counts toward the record book.