49ers signing six-year NFL vet for kicker competition with Moody

Finally, Jake Moody has some competition.The 49ers are signing veteran kicker Greg Joseph to a one-year contract, agent Brett Tessler told NBC Sports Bay Area on Friday.Joseph, 30, is a six-year NFL veteran who has appeared in 75 games and has made 116 of 141 field-goal attempts in his career for 82.3-percent accuracy rate.Joseph kicked for three teams last season, appearing in eight games with the New York Giants, Washington Commanders and the New York Jets. He made 16 of his 20 field-goal attempts.Joseph played in one game for current 49ers special-teams coordinator Brant Boyer while with the Jets.Coach Kyle Shanahan foreshadowed the move more than a month ago at the NFL Annual Meeting. He said he would rely on Boyer and special-teams assistant Colt Anderson to bring in a kicker to compete with Moody.Shanahan talked about the importance of putting pressure on Moody to win the job."You have him compete every day in practice," Shanahan said. "You get to preseason games and that's about all you can do. But I think when you bring in a guy, and you make it a serious competition, which it will be, and he knows he's got to beat out a veteran kicker."As long as we bring in a guy who is...