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Are the 49ers Planning to Keep Jake Moody next Season?

It's Sunday, February 2nd, 2025, and Jake Moody is still on the 49ers.

Grant Cohn

Jan 5, 2025; Glendale, Arizona, USA; San Francisco 49ers kicker Jake Moody (4) against the Arizona Cardinals at State Farm Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images
Jan 5, 2025; Glendale, Arizona, USA; San Francisco 49ers kicker Jake Moody (4) against the Arizona Cardinals at State Farm Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images / Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images
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It's Sunday, February 2nd, 2025, and Jake Moody is still on the 49ers.

Moody should have been the first person the 49ers cut ties with this offseason -- not their special teams coordinator Brian Schneider. Moody was far, far worse, considering he missed all those field goal attempts, not Schneider. And yet, Schneider got the axe, not Moody. At least not yet.

Moody was one of the worst kickers in the league last season. He has a strong leg -- unfortunately, he's highly inaccurate. The 49ers could find a better kicker on the street. Most teams do.

But the 49ers drafted Moody in the third round of the 2023 NFL Draft -- that's a huge investment in a kicker. And that's the only reason he's still on the team. If he had been a seventh-round pick, they probably would have cut him midseason.

Clearly, the 49ers would prefer not to cut a third-round pick. So they hired a new special teams coordinator, Brant Boyer, in hopes that he can salvage Moody. Good luck, Brant.

The 49ers also will tell themselves that Moody kicked much better last season before he suffered a high-ankle sprain attempting to make a tackle during a kick return. So with better health and better coaching, Moody should be fine. That's the hope.

But Moody's issue seems to be more mental than physical. He lacks confidence. You can see it all over his face. And if he doesn't believe in himself, he's doomed.

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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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