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49ers Sign Kicker Anders Carlson to the Practice Squad

The 49ers just signed their second kicker in two weeks.

Grant Cohn

Green Bay Packers place kicker Anders Carlson (17) watches his field goal during the second quarter of their NFC divisional playoff game against the San Francisco Saturday, January 20, 2024 at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
Green Bay Packers place kicker Anders Carlson (17) watches his field goal during the second quarter of their NFC divisional playoff game against the San Francisco Saturday, January 20, 2024 at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, California. / Mark Hoffman / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK
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The 49ers just signed their second kicker in two weeks.

Anders Carlson is now an official member of the 49ers' practice squad according to Tom Silverstein. They signed him because Matthew Wright separated his shoulder making a tackle against the Seahawks and may not be healthy enough to kick this week. And they signed Wright because Jake Moody injured his ankle making a tackle against the Cardinals and is on Injured Reserve.

Signing Carlson today suggests the 49ers don't yet know if Wright will be ready for Sunday's big game against the Kansas City Chiefs. If he's not ready, they can make him inactive and call up Carlson on Saturday. Keep in mind, the Chiefs have one of the best kickers in the NFL -- Harrison Butker.

The Packers drafted Carlson in the sixth round last season and he was a huge disappointment for them. Because in their playoff game against the 49ers, he had a chance to give Green Bay a 7-point lead with 6:21 left in the game. All he had to do was make a 41-yard field goal. But he missed it wide left. And the 49ers eventually won by three. Which means Carlson is the reason that game didn't go to overtime. So of course, the Packers waived him.

And now he's the 49ers' insurance policy at kicker. If Wright it healthy, the 49ers won't use Carlson. And when Moody returns, both Wright and Carlson will be gone. No team wants to rely on either of those kickers. The 49ers simply have no choice.

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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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