After Nick Folk missed for the first time since 2017 inside 40 yards, dropping his season field goal percentage to 72.2%, it seemed very likely the Falcons would move on. Now they’ve reportedly done so, signing away Baltimore Ravens practice squad kicker Jake Moody to replace him.
The Falcons gave Folk a two-year deal in the offseason, banking on a player who led the NFL in field goal percentage in 2023, 2024, and 2025 reversing their kicking woes. Instead, Father Time finally wind sprinted to catch
up with Folk, who went 13/18 on field goals and 17/18 on extra points through nine weeks in Atlanta, with some truly costly misses along the way highlighted by Week 1 struggles against Pittsburgh and the chip shot miss last Sunday against the Bengals. We’ll wish him well, but this may be the end of the road for a kicker with a long and storied career who is now 42 years old and declining.
Moody, meanwhile, will get a chance to audition for the Falcons’ kicking job going forward. He’s had a turbulent career as a former third round pick for the 49ers in 2023, hitting 84% of his field goal tries in year one but struggling badly in year two to the tune of a 72% hit rate. After he went just one-for-three in the first game of the 2025 season with the 49ers, he’s bounced around between the Bears (8/9), Commanders (10/11), and Ravens this year (1/1 from 53 yards). The early career struggles seem to have evened out for Moody, who has always had the leg to be a good kicker, and he was just hoping for an opportunity to prove he’s more than a fill-in option or practice squad elevation. He’ll get it for the Falcons, who would love to get an under-30 kicker who can can deliver consistent performance after the past few frustrating years at the position.
Congratulations to Moody, and may he be the kicker the Falcons have been looking for.
