San Francisco’s latest touchdown drive should have made Monday night feel even more comfortable. Instead, Eddy Pineiro’s latest extra-point miss kept a familiar wrinkle attached to the 49ers’ scoring machine.
Pineiro missed the try after Christian McCaffrey punched in a 1-yard touchdown run in the first quarter against the Washington Commanders at Levi’s Stadium. The score came after Brock Purdy turned fourth-and-3 into a first down with a scramble. The miss left the 49ers up 13-3 with about four minutes left in the opening quarter.
For Pineiro, the issue has been clear since he arrived in San Francisco in 2025: he’s been much steadier on field goals than on extra points. The veteran kicker has now missed seven extra points with the 49ers, while only missing four field goals, as David Lombardi of The San Francisco Standard pointed out Monday on X, formerly Twitter:
“That's Eddy Piñeiro's 7th missed extra point with the 49ers. He's only missed 4 field goals with SF.”
That split has followed Pineiro through a strong 2025 season, when he led the NFL in field-goal percentage by making 28 of 29 attempts for a 96.6% rate. Even then, the extra-point inconsistency was already there, with four misses on 38 tries. It has continued into 2026.
San Francisco rewarded him in March with a four-year, $17 million extension after that field-goal production. This season, through five games, Pineiro had made five of eight field goals and 17 of 19 extra points before Monday night’s miss.
The inconsistency hasn’t stopped the 49ers from winning. A week earlier, Pineiro drilled a 44-yard game-winner against the Seattle Seahawks, helping keep San Francisco unbeaten.
By the two-minute warning in the first half Monday, the 49ers still led 13-3, with the ball at Washington’s 11-yard line as they chased their sixth straight victory.
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