Falcons reportedly turn to Jake Moody, leaving Ravens another kicking problem

The case for Atlanta making a change is clearer than the case that Moody will solve the problem. Folk has missed five of his 18 field-goal attempts this season, including one in each of his past two games. Moody’s latest appearance produced a successful 53-yard kick—but one good outing is not a guarantee of dependable kicking over the rest of a season.⁠1

The transaction still needs a qualification: the available reporting does not establish an official announcement completing either Moody’s signing or Folk’s release. Even the Ravens’ own website attributed the prospective signing to Schultz rather than announcing a completed move. For now, this is a reported change, not a confirmed roster transaction.⁠19

Folk’s season offers a concrete reason to reconsider the position. Atlanta’s official 2026 statistics list his field-goal conversion rate at 72.22 percent, with a longest successful kick of 51 yards. NBC Sports also reports that he has made 17 of 18 extra points across nine games. The problems have therefore not been confined to field goals, though the extra-point record amounts to one miss.⁠22⁠1

Those figures explain the pressure on Folk without establishing the cost of each failure. The available evidence does not show that either of his two most recent missed field goals decided a game. A kicker’s record can justify scrutiny without turning every unsuccessful attempt into the explanation for a team’s result.

Moody would arrive with a successful recent appearance to offer. Baltimore elevated him from its practice squad to handle the kicking against Jacksonville on Thursday, November 5. He made his lone field-goal attempt, from 53 yards, and his only extra-point attempt. The Ravens lost 33–10. His part of the scoring operation worked, even though the team’s night did not.⁠1⁠23⁠27

It would be tempting to place Moody’s 53-yard make beside Folk’s 51-yard season long and declare Atlanta is gaining range. That comparison cannot bear the weight. One is a particular successful attempt; the other is the longest make in a season’s record. They are not a controlled test of the two kickers’ distance or accuracy.

Moody also brings more history than that one Baltimore appearance. In 2025, he kicked for San Francisco, Chicago and Washington, finishing with a combined 19 field goals in 23 attempts and 15 extra points in 16 attempts. Those are his previous-season totals, not his 2026 record. They give Atlanta a broader body of work to consider, but not an assurance that the proposed switch will produce fewer misses.⁠1⁠4

For the Ravens, Moody’s potential departure is consequential because the need that brought him into the lineup has not gone away. Tyler Loop is on injured reserve, and NBC Sports reports that he is expected to remain out for at least a few more weeks. Baltimore would be losing a replacement it had just used successfully, not simply an unused practice-squad option.⁠1

The disruption began before the Jacksonville game. On November 2, Baltimore’s official site reported that Loop had a right-groin injury and that injured reserve was a possibility. By the November 10 reporting, he was on IR. The exact placement date and a firm return date are not established here; the earlier account describes an injury decision still pending, while the later one establishes his subsequent status.⁠28⁠1

That leaves the two teams facing different tests. Atlanta would be choosing a new kicker in the hope of improving known results. Baltimore would need to find another replacement to cover an absence that is still expected to last weeks. Neither Moody’s successful Thursday appearance nor the reported interest from Atlanta identifies who would take those kicks for the Ravens.

The immediate questions are practical: official completion of Atlanta’s moves and Baltimore’s choice of a replacement. Folk’s next destination is also unestablished. If the reported signing goes through, Atlanta will have made its choice—but whether it has improved the position will be settled by Moody’s next run of attempts, not his last successful one.