San Francisco 49ers, kicker Eddy Piñeiro agree on extension
SANTA CLARA, Calif. –The San Francisco 49ers took care of certainly one of their most vital in-house free brokers Saturday afternoon, agreeing to a four-year contract extension with kicker Eddy Pineiro.
The deal is value a complete of $17 million with $10 million in ensures, Piñeiro’s brokers, Drew Rosenhaus and Robert Bailey, instructed ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The deal prevents Piñeiro, who signed with the Niners in Week 2 final season, from hitting the open market when the early free-agent negotiating window opens on Monday.
Niners normal supervisor John Lynch made it clear on the NFL mix final month that retaining Piñeiro was a high offseason precedence in San Francisco.
“Eddy was obviously fantastic,” Lynch mentioned. “I don’t know if a guy could have come in and done any better.”
In Piñeiro, the Niners have stability ready that has lacked it since Robbie Gould’s departure after the 2022 season. Piñeiro was one of many 49ers’ largest additions in 2025 after the Niners waived kicker Jake Moody on the heels of a shaky outing within the season opener in opposition to Seattle.
From there, Piñeiro went 28-of-29 on discipline objectives, together with six makes from 50-plus yards. His lone discipline objective miss got here in opposition to Indianapolis on Dec. 22 when his 64-yard try hit the crossbar and got here up simply quick. His 96.6% discipline objective price was the second-best season mark in franchise historical past amongst kickers with at the very least 25 makes an attempt.
Since 2000, Piñeiro’s 89.7% discipline objective conversion price ranks third amongst all kickers with at the very least 50 makes an attempt.
The 49ers re-signed lengthy snapper Jon Weeks on Tuesday, leaving pointer Thomas Morstead remaining as a free agent amongst their three specialists. According to Lynch, the 49ers have been working to re-sign Morstead together with Weeks and Piñeiro.
