Jake Moody is handling Baltimore’s kicking role against Jacksonville because Tyler Loop is on injured reserve with a right-groin injury. The Ravens confirmed Moody’s standard practice-squad elevation for the November 5 game, completing a change coach Jesse Minter had announced earlier in the week.

The sequence matters for anyone encountering an older report that says Loop might go on IR. Minter discussed that possibility on November 2; the official transaction log records Loop’s IR placement on November 3 and Moody’s game elevation on November 5. This is the roster explanation for the matchup, rather than a report of its final score.

Timeline of Jake Moody’s October 20 practice-squad signing, Tyler Loop’s November 3 IR placement and Moody’s November 5 game elevation
Editorial timeline from the Ravens’ dated announcements and transaction log. It explains roster moves, not the result of the Jaguars game. View full-size graphic ↗

An injury absence, with recent misses as context

Loop missed the November 2 walkthrough with the right-groin problem, according to the team’s report. That evening, Minter named Moody as the kicker for Thursday against the Jaguars while describing IR as a possibility. Tuesday’s transaction changed that from a possibility into a completed roster move.

The team also reported that Loop was 13-for-17 on field goals this season, compared with 30-for-34 in his rookie year. He missed from 34 yards against Buffalo and later made a 26-yarder. Those figures explain why kicking attracted attention, but they do not establish when the injury began or prove that it caused every miss.

How Moody reached the game roster

Baltimore’s log shows that Moody rejoined the practice squad on October 20, after being released from it on September 15. He therefore came from an existing practice-squad place when the team needed another kicker. The intervening dates also help distinguish older signing and release headlines from the current Jacksonville decision.

For November 5, the Ravens explicitly describe Moody’s activation as a standard elevation from the practice squad. In the same transaction they describe quarterback Austin Reed as signing to the active roster. That wording is a useful distinction: the club announced Moody’s availability for this game, without announcing the same kind of roster signing for him.

What remains to be decided after Jacksonville

The next useful records are the team’s subsequent transactions and injury updates. Minter’s November 2 assessment explains the initial change; the November 3 and 5 entries establish what was actually done. Fans checking the kicker for a later fixture should use that later game’s roster information, since this announcement is specifically tied to the Jaguars matchup.

The confirmed answer is that Loop’s injury absence created the opening and Moody was elevated to fill it. Neither the cited announcements nor that transaction gives Loop a definite return date or settles Baltimore’s long-term choice. Those questions need a later medical or roster announcement, rather than an inference from one game’s elevation.

Sources & context

Prepared by the editorial team from the original records listed below; dates, units and the limits of reported explanations are retained.

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