SANTA CLARA – Skyy Moore smiled and gritted his teeth at his locker Sunday in Cleveland, having done the same two weeks earlier after another scintillating effort as the 49ers’ return specialist.

One of these returns, he vows, will end up in the end zone. It’s always the goal, of course, but even more so since reporters filled him in earlier this season about the 49ers’ historic struggles in the return game.

They have not had a punt return for a touchdown since the 2011 season opener, by Ted Ginn Jr., who amazingly also scored on a kick return that game. Only one other kick return since then has gone the distance, that being one by Richie James in 2018.

“That’s what I’m chasing,” Moore said. “Whatever comes between that, I’ll take it.”

His 66-yard punt return Sunday set up the 49ers’ f

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