{"id":355748,"date":"2025-09-10T02:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/355748\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T02:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:29:10","slug":"new-49ers-kicker-eddy-pineiro-has-amazing-fg-percentage-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/355748\/","title":{"rendered":"New 49ers kicker Eddy Pi\u00f1eiro has amazing FG percentage \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stats show that the 49ers got a pretty good replacement for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\/jake-moody-waived-struggles-continue\/1873332\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">now-waived kicker Jake Moody<\/a> &#8212; in fact, the team signed one of the best field-goal kickers of all time.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco brought in veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/P\/PineEd00.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eddy Pi\u00f1eiro<\/a> for a workout after cutting Moody on Tuesday and will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\/report-eddy-pineiro-contract-workout\/1873386\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sign him to a contract<\/a>, a source confirmed to NBC Sports Bay Area&#8217;s Matt Maiocco. The moves brings on a kicker with one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/leaders\/fg_perc_career.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">best field-goal percentages in NFL history<\/a> (since 1938), per Pro Football Reference.<\/p>\n<p>Here is where Pi\u00f1eiro&#8217;s career field-goal percentage ranks all-time among the NFL&#8217;s top 10:<\/p>\n<p>RANKNAMEFG%YEARS1Justin Tucker89.103%2012-20242Harrison Butker88.755%2017-20253Chris Boswell88.103%2015-20254Eddy Pi\u00f1eiro88.095%2019-20245Daniel Carlson87.234%2018-20256Josh Lambo87.075%2015-20227Ka&#8217;imi Fairbairn86.992%2017-20258Mike Vanderjagt86.466%1998-20069Robbie Gould86.460%2005-202210Kai Forbath86.364%2012-2020<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\/fans-react-jake-moody-waived\/1873347\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The 49ers waived Moody on Tuesday<\/a> after his 2024 struggles continued into the new NFL season during San Francisco&#8217;s Week 1 win over the Seattle Seahawks. Since the 49ers drafted him in the third round of the 2023 NFL Draft, Moody posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/MoodJa00.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a career 74.2 field-goal percentage<\/a> (84 percent in 2023; 70.6 percent in 2024; 33.3 percent through one game in 2025).<\/p>\n<p>Looking at numbers alone, it&#8217;s clear Pi\u00f1eiro is a step up. In 70 career games, the 29-year-old has made 111 of 126 field-goal attempts and 116 of 126 extra-point attempts (92.1 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Now, the new 49ers kicker will be put to the test in Week 2 against the New Orleans Saints.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/49ers-talk-with-matt-maiocco.simplecast.com\/episodes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Download and follow the 49ers Talk Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stats show that the 49ers got a pretty good replacement for now-waived kicker Jake Moody &#8212; in fact,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[10124,7,7370],"class_list":{"0":"post-355748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-eddy-pineiro","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jake-moody"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115177650068119097","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355748","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=355748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}