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When the San Francisco 49ers made a gigantic swap to hasten as much as No. 3 on this year’s NFL draft, the existing perception was as soon as that the team did so that you just can resolve a quarterback. That set Jimmy Garoppolo’s future in San Francisco in ask.
But both overall manager John Lynch and head coach Kyle Shanahan told reporters Monday that the idea is to draft a young quarterback and to derive Garoppolo:
Albert Breer @AlbertBreer
49ers GM John Lynch: “We felt like we had a team that can perhaps well compete. … We went to ownership, acknowledged ‘hey things are having a detect fair, we want to make this (swap), however we don’t want to protest fair bye to Jimmy.'”
Possession signed off on maintaining both a rookie and Jimmy Garoppolo.
Nick Wagoner @nwagoner
#49ers coach Kyle Shanahan acknowledged it’s appropriate that team is planning to derive Jimmy Garoppolo, barring being blown away by supply. Shanahan acknowledged he believes it might per chance perhaps well per chance be laborious to get a QB who helps them rob appropriate now bigger than Garoppolo and enraged to enjoy a QB studying within the aid of him.
Albert Breer @AlbertBreer
49ers coach Kyle Shanahan requested on going to Alabama Pro Day tomorrow to come, and now not North Dakota Say or BYU, says it was as soon as crucial for the team to now not tip its hand sooner than the swap was as soon as performed.
“Now that you just’re up at 3, you don’t must conceal as noteworthy.”
The Niners will most likely be telling the actual fact after they bid they want to derive Garoppolo heading into next season. He’s below contract for 2 more seasons, and the Niners also can resolve to let a young participant originate within the aid of him proper thru that contract.
Or the Niners are merely placing up a smoke show mask mask, hoping to pressure up the price with teams by creating the impression they want to derive Garoppolo. Or now not it’s rare that a team makes use of a high-three rep on a young quarterback, only to derive him locked on the bench for a season or two.
NFL avid gamers must now not devoid of ego, and trading a flurry of future draft picks to resolve a young quarterback is now not going to take a seat down down effectively with Garoppolo, who knows he’s now on borrowed time in San Francisco. Likewise, a young incoming participant is now not going to be thrilled by the belief of sitting a year or two within the aid of Garoppolo.
It has the functionality to change into fair awkward, in other words.
Robert Mays @robertmays
@SandoNFL @timkawakami I realize this, in idea, and think it with out a doubt makes some sense. But $25 million feels like a extraordinarily costly public relatives plot and two 1st-round picks is A LOT to provide up for any individual who’s gonna exhaust any time on the bench within the aid of Jimmy Garoppolo.
The Niners traded the No. 12 overall rep within the 2021 NFL draft, a 2021 third-rounder and first-round picks in both 2022 and 2023 to the Miami Dolphins to hasten as much as No. 3. The overall expectation is that Trevor Lawrence and Zach Wilson stands out as the predominant two picks of this year’s draft, leaving the Niners to make a call from Ohio Say’s Justin Discipline, North Dakota Say’s Trey Lance and Alabama’s Mac Jones.
The most modern buzz has the Niners concentrated on Jones:
Dane Brugler @dpbrugler
Time will inform if it involves fruition, however the buzz about Mac Jones at No. 3 is straightforward.
Kyle Shanahan would now not support many knowledgeable days. The real fact that he’ll be at Jones’ knowledgeable day tomorrow to come tells us the Alabama QB is a legit contender at No. 3. https://t.co/NJpRe0Fg9k
Peter King of ProFootballTalk reported Monday that Jones “is within the combo” for the Niners, though he added that there is a “cadre of evaluators who finish now not think Jones is a immense quarterback for 2021 football because he’s now not cell like a Lance or Wilson.”
And a participant like Lance gained’t be as streak-and-play as Jones, however he also can enjoy adequate enticing long-interval of time skill—and a elevated ceiling than a Jones or Fields—that the Niners might per chance well per chance like transferring excessive draft resources to manufacture him, despite the incontrovertible fact that it manner grooming him for a year or two within the aid of Garoppolo.
So there’s deal of transferring items in play. One factor is hasten—San Francisco is going to draft a quarterback at No. 3. What remains much less certain is what meaning for Garoppolo.
