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49ers Kicker Jake Moody Says He Won't Rush Back from Injury

"Hopefully, I won't be put in a situation like that again and I'll learn how to tackle better."

Grant Cohn

Oct 6, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers place kicker Jake Moody (4) prepares to kick a field goal against the Arizona Cardinals during the second quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images
Oct 6, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers place kicker Jake Moody (4) prepares to kick a field goal against the Arizona Cardinals during the second quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images / Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images
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SANTA CLARA -- 49ers klcker Jake Moody practiced on Monday for the first time since he injured his kicking ankle on Oct. 6. Here's what he said about his recovery.

Q: Is there a chance you'll play Sunday against the Buccaneers?

MOODY: "There's a chance. I'm not going to rush back into it, but there's always a chance."

Q: What have you done in your recovery?

MOODY: "Lots of physical therapy, lots of treatment with the medical staff. Slowly working my way back on the field. Just progressing, making sure I'm doing all the steps needed. Not rushing back into anything. Just taking it one step at a time."

Q: When you watched the replay of your injury, were you surprised it wasn't more severe?"

MOODY: "I've had medical people say that they were pretty surprised that it wasn't anything worse just from how bad it looked. Glad to hear that. Hopefully, I won't be put in a situation like that again and I'll learn how to tackle better."

Q: I know it's bad either way, but is it better that it was your kicking foot instead of your planting foot?

MOODY: "I would say so. The amount of pressure and force that goes into your plant foot, especially on kickoffs, that might be a little bit more difficult to recover from and to build that strength back up. The fact that it is my kicking foot is probably a better thing."

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Grant Cohn
GRANT COHN

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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