The sun rises in the East, time moves forward, and Cameron Dicker is an elite kicker. Some things are simply accepted as fundamental truths.
The LA Chargers' place kicker has made a name for himself as one of the most efficient kickers in the league on a franchise that has a tortured past at the position. In addition to having the best name for a kicker in the sport, Dicker has brought the Chargers something that is very hard to come by: stability.
Chargers fans know Dicker is one of the best in the NFL and now there are bona fide numbers to support the claim. FanSided recently unveiled a brand-new, proprietary kicker metric, Kick Value Added (KVA), to measure how much value a kicker actually brings his team.
The metric takes into account league-average performance at various distances and adjusts it for time period. In an area where kickers are bombing long kicks with ease, a 50-yarder doesn't hold the same value as it did 30 years ago.
Even with a higher bar to cross, Dicker is one of the absolute best in the sport. Dicker finished the fifth-most KVA in 2025, marking the third straight year he ranked in the top five.
"Thus far, Dicker doesn’t seem to have a weakness. He's the all-time leader in field-goal percentage among qualified kickers, he almost never misses point-after tries, and the Los Angeles Chargers aren't shy about trotting him out from near midfield," Adam Fromal writes.
"His average make in 2025 (38.1 yards) came from closer to the red zone than we’ve seen in the past, but he still booted the ball through the uprights from 50-plus yards five times this year, including a 59-yarder that tied his career high."
Cameron Dicker has clearly established himself as a top kicker in the NFL
Fromal is right — Dicker doesn't seem to have a weakness. Week in and week out, the Chargers' kicker trots out and makes the difficult seem easy. It's rare for Chargers fans to have this level of confidence in their kicker, but that is what Dicker has earned.
The unflappable 25-year-old kicker did have the first truly bad game of his career this season against the Houston Texans. Dicker missed a short field goal and an extra point against Houston that ultimately could have swung the game in the Chargers' favor. Those misses kept Dicker from being even higher in the top 10.
Dicker ranked No. 2 in KVA in 2023 and No. 3 in 2024. After yet another top-five finish, it's safe to say that he has solidified himself as a true top-five kicker in the league. And even then, some names ahead of him on the list might have their arrows pointing down instead of up.
Thirty-year-old Eddy Pinerio ranked No. 4 despite missing several extra points this season. He was great outside of extra points, but he also ranked No. 32 in 2024. His place in the top five is not secured heading into 2026.
Nick Folk ranked No. 3 and there is a real chance he's not even in the league next season. As great as Folk is, his football mortality is much more apparent at 41 years old.
That leaves Will Reichard and Ka'imi Fairbairn as the other two kickers ahead of Dicker. Neither kicker ranked in the top five in the last two seasons like Dicker. Both are great kickers who earned their place on the list, but Dicker has been more consistent in recent years.
Dicker is an elite kicker, period. And while he may have ranked No. 5 in this year's KVA, it might've still proven that he is the best young kicker in the sport.