49ers invested in Lance as franchise QB but lack of playing time could impede his growth; Garoppolo may boost team's Super Bowl bid this year
A strange NFL season simmers in the Bay Area, where the San Francisco 49ers were more interesting with Trey Lance as their starter but now with Jimmy Garoppolo are more capable of reaching the Super Bowl.when his ankle was broken on a designed run, is rifle-armed and speedy but raw at 22.Santa Clara is where the grass is greenest for Jimmy G. The Niners can support the 30-year-old with a defensive front that rivals Buffalo’s for NFL honors and a ground game that pounded Seattle on Sunday.
A trip to the NFC title game would be San Francisco’s third in four years with Garoppolo. That’s in play, too.as a backup entering this season. As part of the agreement, the team won’t apply the franchise tag next offseason, allowing Garoppolo to test the market.Though Lance remains the Niners’ long-term option, good luck trying to figure out how that will turn out.
He redshirted as a freshman in 2017, and threw only one pass the next year when he backed up future Chargers draftee Easton Stick. Forecasting a bright career for him, ex-NFL executive Joe Banner, who hired Andy Reid as head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles and worked with Shanahan in Cleveland, said Lance is the smartest QB in his draft class.Recently, a blunt critique came from former Super Bowl-winning coordinator Mike Martz, the longtime San Diegan under whom Kurt Warner evolved into a Hall of Fame quarterback.
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