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Young kickers usually struggle in the NFL. Kickers who are drafted rarely remain with their original team.

And the select few drafted early, well, they often have the roughest time of all.

Jake Moody’s brief, bumpy stint with the San Francisco 49ers — the 2023 third-round pick was waived this week after an uneven Week 1 performance in Seattle — shouldn’t be a surprise. In fact, as thorny as his NFL introduction was, it went more smoothly than any of his highly drafted peers’ over the last decade.

Roberto Aguayo, taken in the second round (No. 59) by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2016, was cut before his second season, after he finished last in the league in field goal percentage and was 4-of-11 on kicks of 40 yards or longer as a rookie. The whiff was so conspicuous that teams shied away from taking kickers as early as even the fourth round until 2022, when the Cleveland Browns drafted Cade York at No. 124. He was also cut after one season and is currently a free agent.

Then came Moody, who every special teams expert agreed was the best prospect in recent memory.

Unlike Aguayo, a Florida native who kicked at Florida State, Moody grew up kicking off frozen fields in Michigan, then became a high-pressure ace at the University of Michigan. Former Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh referred to the kicker as “Money Moody” and called him “a Michigan legend.” He was the rare youngster with a talented leg and a steely disposition. Wind, weather, hostile crowds, long-distance kicks — you couldn’t faze him, even when he first arrived on campus.

“You don’t see a freshman kicker just come in and be good, which I think bodes well,” Harbaugh said in 2023. “Because you don’t see a lot of rookie kickers in the NFL be real good. It usually takes some time. There’s some history and evidence here that says Jake’s gonna be good right away.”

Even Moody’s rare calm, however, was no match for the NFL. After going a respectable 21-of-25 on field goals as a rookie, he struggled in the back half of the 2024 season, which the 49ers said was because they allowed him to return too quickly from a severe Week 5 high-ankle sprain. Moody was wobbly in the recent preseason, then clanged a 27-yard attempt off the left upright in a tight game Sunday in Seattle.

“When it gets to that point, you can see it affecting him from a mental (standpoint),” coach Kyle Shanahan said Wednesday. “Then you don’t have much choice. You’ve got to move on.”

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Baker not being able to audible, shift protection effectively, or read Defenses & coverage was always something that stuck out like a sore big toe... Gotta be a student of the game, these days especially, to compete at the top.