Reports from multiple NFL sources indicate that the San Francisco 49ers will release kicker Jake Moody, ending his two-plus seasons with the team and an absolute disaster of a Week 1 game against the Seahawks.
There's been no official word from the team as of yet, but it certainly appears that Moody's tenure as a Niner is done.
When the 49ers selected Moody out of Michigan in the third round of the 2023 NFL Draft, the moans and groans began almost immediately. Why, fans wondered, would a team coming off a NFC Championship game run use a draft pick (especially such an early one) on a kicker?
Source: The #49ers are waiving kicker Jake Moody. pic.twitter.com/llxQJb8uEy
— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) September 9, 2025
Moody's rookie season was not all that bad, as he made 21 of 25 field goals (84 percent), missing once from inside 40 yards, twice between 40 and 49, and once from 50-plus, while also hitting all but one of his 61 extra-point attempts.
The kicker also briefly held the Super Bowl record for longest field goal, nailing a 55-yard attempt early in the second quarter of Super Bowl 53 against the Chiefs, only to see the tally broken by Harrison Butker in the third quarter of the same game.
Yet the kick he'll be remembered for in that game will be the extra point that would have put the 49ers up by four instead of three early in the fourth quarter, a play that might have changed the complexion of the rest of the game.
But it was ultimately his disastrous sophomore season that did him in.
He missed 10 field goals that season, while also missing time on injured reserve after suffering a high-ankle sprain attempting to make a tackle because of the Niners' porous coverage.
Because of that, even some of his makes didn't look comfortable.
And then, his performance on Sunday in Seattle against the Seahawks in Week proved to be the final nail in his coffin, leading to the inevitable waive designation. Head coach Kyle Shanahan tried to downplay the situation in his post-game press conference, but that appears to have been an attempt not to fire a player in that situation.
Perhaps Shanahan could no longer ignore the loud noises about Moody, stemming from both inside and outside the building.
In the end, the action of today speaks much louder than Shanahan's words anyway.
The 49ers will need to make a move to strengthen the position, but for a team with aspirations of rebounding from a terribly 2024 and making the playoffs, Moody was clearly a liability they couldn't keep around any longer.