"Dicker the Kicker" isn't going anywhere.
The Chargers on Friday announced they have agreed to terms Dicker on a multi-year contract extension, a decision that is a win-win move for both sides.
For Dicker, it's an obvious reward of financial stability and job security, even though that latter part hasn't been in question for awhile.
And for the Chargers, they lock up perhaps the NFL's best young kicker for the forseeable future.
Read that last sentence again.
After years of trying to find a steady and consistent answer in the kicking game, Dicker arrived on the scene midway through the 2022 season and made a splash from the jump.
One moment Dicker was planning on attending a Carrie Underwood concert.
A few days later he was kicking a game-winning, 37-yard field goal at the buzzer to give the Bolts a win in Atlanta.
Dicker made a pair of field goals in that Week 9 win over the Falcons and hasn't looked back since, eventually earning 2022 All-Rookie honors from the Professional Football Writers of America.
In 27 career games in powder blue, Dicker has made 50 of 53 field goals (94.3 percent) and all 57 extra point tries. Add in two field goals he made earlier in the 2022 season with the Eagles and Dicker's numbers are even better.
Let's put it this way: Dicker has made 52 of 55 total field goals in his young career, good for a success rate of 94.5 percent. That is good for the best career field-goal percentage in NFL history by any player with at least 50 attempts.
It's not as if Dicker has relied only on chip shot makes with the Bolts either. After all, he did set a franchise record last season with seven makes of 50-plus yards.
By the way, Dicker's perfect percentage on his 59 career extra points is the best by any kicker with at least 50 extra point attempts since the play was moved back in 2015.
On the field, Dicker is cool, calm and collected, an approach Chargers Special Teams Coordinator Ryan Ficken raved about a year ago.
"It's his approach to the game. He plays like he's a veteran kicker," Ficken said. "Nothing sways him at all.
"He's confident in everything he does. He's consistent in his approach," Ficken added. "You know what you're going to get out of him."
Which is exactly why the decision to keep Dicker around for the long haul is the perfect move by the Bolts.
