{"id":354753,"date":"2025-09-09T17:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/354753\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T17:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:33:10","slug":"49ers-to-waive-k-jake-moody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/354753\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers To Waive K Jake Moody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With two of his three field goals failing to split the uprights on Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/MoodJa00.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-09_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jake Moody<\/a>\u2018s 2024 struggles appear to have carried over into the 2025 season. As a result, the 49ers are moving on from the 2023 third-round pick, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/1965455697249992884\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">per NFL Network\u2019s Tom Pelissero<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Moody impressed as a rookie by converting 84.0% of his field goals and a league-high 60 extra points on 61 attempts. In 2024, he got off to a hot start with six field goals in Week 1 and a 93.9% conversion rate through five weeks before an ankle injury sidelined him for three games. The 25-year-old struggled from distance for the rest of the season, making just five of his 14 attempts from over 40 yards.<\/p>\n<p>The 49ers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballrumors.com\/2025\/05\/49ers-invite-k-kenneth-almendares-to-rookie-minicamp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">explored other kicker options<\/a> this offseason and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballrumors.com\/2025\/05\/49ers-add-k-greg-joseph\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">signed six-year veteran<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/J\/JoseGr00.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-09_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Greg Joseph<\/a> as potential competition, but new special teams coordinator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/B\/BoyeBr20.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-09_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brant Boyer<\/a> still expressed confidence in Moody. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballrumors.com\/2025\/08\/49ers-release-k-greg-joseph\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Joseph was cut before the preseason<\/a> and Moody went six-for-seven on field goals and five-for-six on extra points to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballrumors.com\/2025\/08\/49ers-unlikely-to-pursue-k-addition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">stave off any chance of a last-minute signing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With two of his three field goals failing to split the uprights on Sunday, Jake Moody\u2018s 2024 struggles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,7,7370,6,1161,252,2624,2623,3571],"class_list":{"0":"post-354753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jake-moody","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-san-francisco","13":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","14":"tag-sanfrancisco","15":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers","16":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115175542635730759","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}