49ers will sign veteran kicker to compete with Moody in offseason

PALM BEACH, Fla. — After a particularly challenging 2024 NFL season for Jake Moody, Kyle Shanahan revealed the 49ers will bring in competition before the start of the offseason program.After a season of dismal performances by the special teams unit as a whole, the team hired Brant Boyer as its special teams coordinator and Colt Anderson as his assistant."Yeah, we are going to bring someone else in," Shanahan said Tuesday at the NFL Annual Meeting. "We weren't going to sign a guy right away in free agency, but I know Brant and Colt are looking into some kickers throughout all of these kicking camps throughout the colleges, but we'd more likely like to add a veteran, hopefully get him in here after draft time."After making 84 percent of his field goals in his rookie season, Moody started the 2024 season only missing one field goal attempt over five games. The kicker suffered a high ankle sprain in Week 5 and missed the next three games. When Moody returned, he missed nine of his next 20 attempts.Moody has been known to be extremely efficient in practice, including several attempts of more than 60 yards. How to make that success translate into real games is an obvious goal for him...