Buffalo Payments kicker Matt Prater acquired a hero’s welcome after securing his staff’s insane comeback victory over the Baltimore Ravens.
Prater, 41, kicked a 32-yard area objective as time expired on Sunday, September 7, giving the Payments a 41-40 win over the Ravens at Highmark Stadium in Buffalo.
With 8:35 left within the fourth quarter, the Ravens led the sport 40-25 and had a 98.9 % likelihood to win, based on the NFL’s Subsequent Gen Stats.
Prater, the second-oldest participant within the NFL, signed with the Payments on Thursday, September 4, after the staff’s beginning kicker, Tyler Bass, was positioned on injured reserve.
After his kick went by means of the uprights, Prater was lifted onto the shoulders of his new teammates and paraded across the area.
“I used to be not anticipating this,” Prater advised reporters in his postgame press convention.
Prater arrived in Buffalo on a red-eye from Arizona round 6:30 a.m. on Thursday, based on The Athletic.
“I’m nonetheless on cloud 9,” Prater mentioned after the sport.
Regardless of the storybook second, Prater — who has additionally performed for the Miami Dolphins (twice), Detroit Lions (twice), Atlanta Falcons Denver Broncos and Arizona Cardinals over the course of his 19-year NFL profession — refused to take credit score for the unbelievable comeback.
ORCHARD PARK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 7: Josh Allen of the Buffalo Payments celebrates with Matt Prater of the Buffalo Payments following an NFL soccer sport towards the Baltimore Ravens at Highmark Stadium on September 07, 2025 in Orchard Park, New York. Michael Owens/Getty Photos
“It wasn’t me, it was everyone,” Prater mentioned. “I simply need to swing my leg, they’re doing all the pieces else, the exhausting components.”
As soon as he arrived in Buffalo, Prater didn’t waste any time in making connecting with teammates
“I met him two days in the past within the locker room and he confirmed me a video of his son taking part in quarterback,” Payments quarterback Josh Allen mentioned after Sunday’s sport. “As we speak earlier than the sport, he comes as much as me earlier than we even take the sphere. He simply mentioned, ‘Hey, I promise you I’m gonna provide you with all the pieces I acquired tonight.’”
Payments head coach, Sean McDermott, was nonetheless making an attempt to make sense of what had transpired within the aftermath of the sport.
“This one can be a type of tales which might be advised for a very long time,” McDermott, 51, advised reporters. “I’m positive persons are gonna get up, some Buffalonians perhaps, and perhaps folks simply across the nation, and can be like, ‘Wait, did that occur?’”
Punter Brad Robbins joked that “Matt was a rookie after I was eight years outdated,” and mentioned he requested the Payments’ head of apparatus, Jeff Mazurek, to make him a memento in honor of his new particular groups teammate.
“As quickly as I discovered [Prater] he was right here, I used to be like, ‘Hey, I don’t care what it takes, however are you able to make me a jersey? I’ll purchase it off ya,’” Robbins requested Mazurek. “I can have Prater signal it. A Prater Payments jersey goes to be like a rarity. It’ll be fairly candy.”
