SANTA CLARA, Calif. — With minute greater than two weeks left till the regular-season opener, the San Francisco 49ers have minute concept who will deal with kicking tasks in opposition to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

That’s as a result of, within the span of 3 days, either one of the group’s kickers –rookie Jake Moody (proper quadriceps) and veteran Zane Gonzalez (proper calf) — suffered accidents to their kicking legs that solid suspicion on their availability for Past 1.

The ones accidents come 3 days ahead of the Niners and the left-overs of the league should snip all the way down to the preliminary 53-man roster. It manner San Francisco has some roster gymnastics to tug off future concurrently comparing the place Moody and Gonzalez will likely be health-wise two weeks from now.

“I have never been in the situation before where we have two really good kickers in our camp and, a few days before the final 53, both kickers aren’t available at this time,” teacher Kyle Shanahan mentioned Saturday. “I think these next couple of days are really important just to see how the rehabbing is going and things like that and trying to guess where it’s going to be two weeks from now when we kick off.”

Upcoming the Niners old a third-round draft pick out — Incorrect. 99 general — on Moody this future, he has been the presumptive starter. Gonzalez deals supplementary intensity and revel in later the Niners swapped conditional late-round selections within the 2025 NFL draft to procure him in March.

During coaching camp, Moody has made nearly all of his grassland objective tries, together with a couple of makes an attempt from 60 yards. However he has struggled some in preseason video games, lacking 40-yard and 58-yard grassland objectives in opposition to the Las Vegas Raiders and an remaining level vs. the Denver Broncos.

Moody left Wednesday’s follow early, strolling to the depot room with a modest limp, and is regarded as “week-to-week,” Shanahan mentioned. That looked as if it would visible the door for Gonzalez to get his alternative in opposition to the Los Angeles Chargers in Friday’s preseason finale.

Gonzalez was once evident kicking right through warm-ups and was once in uniform to start out the sport, nevertheless it was once punter Mitch Wishnowsky — no longer Gonzalez — doing the kicking when the Niners tried an remaining level later scoring on their 2nd ownership.

Shanahan mentioned Saturday that Gonzalez has a strained calf that can price him “a few weeks,” this means that he nearly without a doubt gained’t be to be had for Past 1.

The Niners will determine a couple of kickers this past, mentioned Shanahan, who didn’t not include a possible reunion with Robbie Gould, who have been the group’s kicker since 2017 ahead of the group opted for Moody and Gonzalez within the offseason.

“We’re discussing everything and just being ready for any possibility to maneuver this roster however, but we really don’t know what direction we’re gonna go until time takes care of that,” Shanahan mentioned.