Thirty-four days after being cut by the San Francisco 49ers, Jake Moody won a game for another NFL team.
The former Michigan kicker drilled a last-second 38-yard field goal to give the Chicago Bears a 25-24 victory over the Washington Commanders during a misty and windy Monday night in Landover, Maryland.
Moody was elevated to the Bears’ active roster before the game and finished 4 of 5 in field-goal attempts. He connected on tries of 47, 48, 41 and 38 yards and had a 48-yarder blocked early in the fourth quarter.
The 2023 third-round pick of the 49ers had a tough finish to the 2024 season and missed two field goals in San Francisco’s 2025 opener. It waived him on Sept. 9, and he signed with Chicago’s practice squad three days later.
Monday was his first appearance with the Bears.
“To get all that support after the game from all my teammates – I got here not too long ago, but for everybody to embrace me and take me in as one of their own, it’s an amazing feeling,” Moody told ESPN on the field immediately after the game.
Chicago’s starting kicker, Cairo Santos, wasn’t on the injury report on Saturday but suffered a setback before Monday. Moody entered the game making 46 of 62 career field-goal attempts, although he was only 16 of 29 from 40-plus yards.
He was the first kicker selected in 2023 after a stellar career at Michigan. The Northville native is the only Wolverine to ever win the Lou Groza Award as the nation’s top kicker, going 23 of 25 with a long of 52. Moody hit a program-record 59-yarder in 2022 and finished his career 69 of 84 over five seasons.
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