Kicker Eddy Pineiro is most likely going to be inactive when the San Francisco 49ers play the Carolina Panthers. He's currently dealing with a grade 1 hamstring strain he suffered two days ago.
Fantasy kicker rankings this week start with volatility ... job security and health are both in play. Eddy Pineiro is expected to miss multiple games with a hamstring strain for the San Francisco 49ers, and Washington just released Matt Gay for Jake Moody entering the bye.
Eddy Pineiro has still only missed one kick since signing with the 49ers, and he received recognition for his consistency on Thursday. Pineiro has yet to miss a field goal in his time with San Francisco, going 17 for 17, with his sole failure coming on his opening extra point for the team back in Week 2.
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All NFL players enter the season with high hopes, but sometimes seasons don't go as hoped. These 20 players have been some of the biggest disappointments early in the 2025 season.
The San Francisco 49ers got a huge win on Sunday Night Football. San Francisco defeated Atlanta 20-10 despite dealing with multiple injuries on both sides of the ball.
Kicker Eddy Pineiro continues to prove the San Francisco 49ers were right for signing him. Pineiro has been named the NFC Special Teams Player of the Week for his incredible kicking in the 49ers' thrilling overtime win over the Los Angeles Rams on Thursday Night Football.
The optimist looks at the Los Angeles Rams' loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Thursday Night Football as a fluke, one where 49ers kicker Eddy Pineiro needed to hit a career-high 59-yard field goal in order for them to pull out the win.
In the world of the NFL, kickers are a bit like the quiet kid in the back of the class. You don’t really notice them until they either do something spectacular or completely mess up the final exam.
Eddy Pineiro kicked a 41-yard field goal and the San Francisco defense stuffed the Rams on fourth down later in overtime as the 49ers notched a 26-23 win over Los Angeles on Thursday night at Inglewood, Calif.
When Eddy Pineiro’s kick floated between the uprights at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, the Arizona Cardinals’ unblemished record was lost. With that, questions started to roll in about Arizona’s future.
For years, Thanksgiving belonged to the NFL, but Christmas belonged to the NBA. Occasionally, an NFL game would fall on Christmas, but it was anomalous, even avoided if possible.
Eddy Pineiro helped the San Francisco 49ers improve to 3-0 with a game-winning kick on Sunday, and it would be an understatement to say the veteran was pumped up about his contribution.
The Arizona Cardinals were walked off on Sunday by a game-winning field goal from the San Francisco 49ers and their new kicker, Eddy Pineiro. It's a disheartening loss for Arizona, who falls to 2-1 on the season, especially since Arizona appeared to have the 49ers on the ropes thanks to a late safety to break a 13-13 tie.
In a game that was less a thrilling NFL showdown and more of a slow, agonizing crawl, the San Francisco 49ers managed to escape with a 16-15 victory over the Arizona Cardinals.
Eddy Pineiro drilled a 35-yard field goal as time expired to lift the San Francisco 49ers to a 16-15 win over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday afternoon in Santa Clara, Calif.
The San Francisco 49ers have not put their kicker drama to bed quite yet. Lost in the 49ers' win on the road and their 2-0 start is that there is still a small lingering question at the kicker position. San Francisco had a long summer with Jake Moody that lasted just one week into the 2025 NFL season.
After traveling to the facility earlier in the day for a workout, the San Francisco 49ers have signed former Florida Gators kicker Eddy Pineiro. Pineiro, 29, spent the past three seasons with the Carolina Panthers, where he became the NFL's all-time field goal percentage leader for a time.
According to Adam Schefter, the 49ers are signing veteran K Eddy Pineiro to a contract on Tuesday. San Francisco hosted Pineiro for a workout earlier
The San Francisco 49ers are searching for a new kicker after waiving Jake Moody, whose struggles continued in the team's Week 1 win over the Seattle Seahawks.
Jordan Schultz reports the Bills hosted kickers Eddy Pineiro, Zane Gonzalez and Greg Joseph for workouts on Thursday. Pineiro, 29, wound up signing on with the Raiders as an undrafted free agent out of Florida in 2018.
Dolphins Workout Kicker Eddy Pineiro NFL Insider Jordan Schultz is reporting that the Miami Dolphins worked out kicker Eddy Piñeiro today. The Dolphins must add a kicker with Jason Sanders out 4 to 5 weeks minimum with a hip injury.
The Carolina Panthers have some key special team free agents to look at this offseason. Long-snapper JJ Jansen, holder/punter Johnny Hekker, and kicker Eddy Pineiro are all entering free agency, potentially leaving the Panthers without every single key member of their field goal unit.
There's a new name atop the NFL's all-time kicking accuracy list: Eddy Pineiro. Throughout his five-year career with the Carolina Panthers, Pineiro has largely been accurate.
It felt like the day would never come but the mighty Justin Tucker, kicker for the Baltimore Ravens, has relinquished his title as the most accurate kicker in NFL history.
Eddy Pineiro kicked a 36-yard field goal at 2:07 of overtime as the Carolina Panthers converted off a New York Giants turnover for a 20-17 victory on Sunday in Munich.
If he knows why kicker Eddy Pineiro did not kick today "I don't know. I'm going to have to check with (special teams coordinator) Tracy Smith just to see where he's at.
Absences around the NFL with respect to offseason workouts receives attention at a number of positions, but kicker is generally not one of them.
A year ago, many Panthers fans were upset with kicker Eddy Pineiro after missing the go-ahead extra point toward the end of regulation against Atlanta and then missing the game-winner in overtime.
Eddy Pineiro kicked a 23-yard field goal as time expired and the Carolina Panthers turned their lone lead of the game in a 9-7 victory against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday afternoon at rainy Charlotte, N.C.
Moore caught a 62-yard touchdown pass to tie Sunday's game with 12 seconds left, but his 15-yard penalty made the subsequent extra point a 48-yard attempt.
Santos, 28, has mostly been a journeyman since the fall of 2017. He last spent time with the Tennessee Titans in 2019, where he went 0-of-4 on his field-goal attempts in a 14-7 loss to the Buffalo Bills on Oct. 6.
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