The Niners telegraphed a few big changes in 2024 with their NFL Draft picks.
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy gives a big thumbs up while celebrating their win with teammate Trent Williams after the NFC Championship Game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024. The San Francisco 49ers defeated the Detroit Lions 34-31. In the weeks leading up to the NFL Draft, the 49ers were telegraphing that they would take a tackle — the successor to Trent Williams, it was presumed — with the team’s first-round pick.
Williams, 35, has flirted with retirement in recent seasons, but he is under contract to play for three more seasons with the Niners. This is not a team that messes around in the draft regarding positions of need. But they drafted two guards who can be swing tackles at best this week. There’s no apparent heir on the roster.And as for Colton McKivitz, the team’s publicly maligned right tackle — you can do better, you can do worse, and the Niners like him far more than the public. Those two guards they selected? Both are from the McKivitz/Dan Brunskill school of versatile offensive linemen.
But that’s not to say the Niners can’t be something different. The Rams, for instance, run a “Shanahan-style offense” , but they typically do it with 11 personnel—one running back, one tight end, and three wide receivers. Don’t be surprised if they expand upon it in 2024. They have the bodies at wide receiver to do it now.49ers draft safety Mustapha via Trey Lance pick; running back Guerendo, receiver Cowing added
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