Ok Jake Moody in severe competitors with Greg Joseph

[ad_1] Jake Moody's profession hasn't gone fairly the best way he or the San Francisco 49ers hoped when he was chosen with the No. 99 total choose within the 2023 NFL draft.

Moody struggled out of the gate as a rookie, however righted the ship and really completed his first 12 months robust. He did not choose up the place he left off final season and wound up having a disastrous 12 months that for the primary time put his job in jeopardy.

The 49ers this offseason signed veteran kicker Greg Joseph which appeared to point there can be some competitors for the staff's beginning kicker job. Nevertheless, it wasn't a certainty. San Francisco traded for kicker Zane Gonzalez in Moody's rookie 12 months, however there was by no means any actual competitors. Gonzalez was within the constructing in case Moody was a real catastrophe.

Joseph does not have the identical position on this 12 months's camp. Particular groups coach Brant Boyer on Friday in a press convention confirmed there is a official competitors taking place between Moody and the veteran.

"It ought to become a very good competitors," Boyer mentioned. "I believe they might have kicked a bit of higher at the moment, however they each have executed a hell of a job, executed every thing we have requested. I believe with the addition with [P Thomas] Morstead and [LS Jon] Weeks they've adjusted the operation very well. And I believe it is going to be a very good competitors as we get into camp and people preseason video games.”

That is the primary time Moody's job has ever been in real hazard and it is unlikely we'll see a decision to the kicker battle till the very finish of the preseason. Moody most likely has the within monitor if the 2 gamers are equal in camp, however he'll need to fend off a high quality veteran to take care of his position.

He advised reporters Friday in his personal press convention that he is made some mechanical adjustments to his kicking movement that he thinks will assist him this season. Maybe these adjustments assist him win the job and get him on a monitor towards consistency after two less-than-stellar years.

“Effectively, I believe consistency is the most important factor," Boyer mentioned. "Anyone can go on the market and make 4 kicks in a row or one thing like that in a follow. But when you are able to do it over time, and so they can see the consistency and the ball flight and every thing like that's the similar each time, there's one thing to be mentioned for that, the occasions and every thing else. If a man misses, can the opposite man make proper after? That is all of the form of stuff that you simply search for, the competitiveness. That’s what I need to see. And these guys are doing a very good job to date, and like I mentioned, I assumed they might have had a greater day at the moment, however they're doing a superb job to date.”