Lutz was ranked about 19th among kickers with 20 or more attempts in 2020. That's not among the best. He certainly was one of the best between 2017-2019, but has been on a downward trend since, and had the lost season because of injury. Really appreciate what he did here, but I think the problem is that over the last three seasons, he wasn't the same kicker he was at his peak.
There was the option to give him another season to see if he could rebound but last season wasn't good. We parted ways with Hartley after he had a 73% season and he never really got his career back on track.
I like Lutz and hope his troubles are behind him, but I'm not going to fault the team for addressing areas that weren't good enough last year. I think they've done a good of doing just that and now we have to see if works out.