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Kyle Shanahan, John Lynch, and the San Francisco 49ers have been busy during this two-day negotiating window leading up to the start of free agency. It would seem that players are extremely interested in playing for Shanahan and in his offense. On the eve of free agency, the 49ers are poised to sign five players.
WR Pierre Garçon
Washington Redskins
Garçon will be 31 when the 2017 season kicks off, but he is coming off his second career 1,000-plus-yard season. In 2016, he had 79 receptions for 1,041 yards and three touchdowns.
Link to Shanahan: Garçon's best season came in 2013 with Washington when he caught 113 passes for 1,346 yards and five touchdowns. That was the last of two seasons that Garçon spent with Shanahan as his offensive coordinator.
Contract: Unknown
QB Brian Hoyer
Chicago Bears
Over the past three seasons, Hoyer has passed for 7,377 yards, 37 touchdowns, and 20 interceptions through 31 games. Last season with Chicago, Hoyer broke his left arm during a game against the Green Bay Packers in October. He was placed on injured reserve four days later. Through six games (only four were full games), Hoyer passed for 1,445 yards, six touchdowns, and no interceptions.
According to
NFL Network, the 49ers have informed Hoyer that he will have a chance to compete for the starting job in 2017.
Link to Shanahan: Hoyer, an eight-year veteran, started 14 games while Shanahan was the offensive coordinator for a season (2014) in Cleveland. That year, Hoyer passed for a career-high 3,326 yards, completing 55.3 percent of his passes and throwing 12 touchdowns compared to 13 interceptions.
Matt Maiocco Fast Fact: In four full games with Chicago last year, Hoyer passed for an average of 329.5 yards. The 49ers averaged an NFL-worst 181.9 yards per game in 2016.
Contract: 2 years, $12 million, $10 million guaranteed, and an extra $6 million in incentives
WR Marquise Goodwin
Buffalo Bills
The former Olympic long jumper who ran the 40-yard dash in 4.27 seconds at the 2013 NFL Scouting Combine spent his entire career with Buffalo, who drafted the receiver in the third round of the 2013 NFL Draft. Last season, Goodwin appeared in 15 games – starting nine – and had 29 receptions for 431 yards and three touchdowns for the Bills.
Contract: 2 years, $8 million
FB Kyle Juszczyk
Baltimore Ravens
Juszczyk was a fourth-round selection out of Harvard by Baltimore in the 2013 NFL Draft. He was selected to the Pro Bowl last season and was a 2016 First-Team All-Pro. Juszczyk has been a factor catching the football as well. He has 97 catches for 769 yards and five touchdowns since 2014.
Contract: 4 years, $21 million, $10 million guaranteed
LB Malcolm Smith
Oakland Raiders
Smith played in 31 games – starting 30 – over the past two seasons in Oakland. During that timeframe, he had 225 tackles, four sacks, nine passes defended, two interceptions, and four forced fumbles.
Contract: Unknown
Out of San Francisco
The San Francisco 49ers officially released WR Torrey Smith and S Antoine Bethea on Tuesday. Then on Wednesday, the team released C Marcus Martin.
Much was said of San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan and general manager John Lynch's absences from Ohio State's pro day last week. Instead of traveling to Columbus to watch quarterback Justin Fields, a candidate to be drafted with the team's No. 3 overall pick, the duo was in Tuscaloosa for Alabama's pro day, watching Mac Jones.
Why Jones over Fields?
"[Just] talking with Fields' agent [David Mulugheta] and everything, we'll get another one from him too," Shanahan explained last week, per Kirk Larrabee. "So we'll be able to see him. That kind of made it an easy decision."
According to Fields' agent, that next opportunity will come on
Justin Fields of Ohio State will hold his second pro day workout on Wednesday, April 14. San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan and general manager John Lynch are expected to be in attendance. Both missed the former Buckeye quarterback's first pro day to attend Mac Jones' workout in Tuscaloosa.
Shanahan and Lynch will have an opportunity to see quarterback Trey Lance of North Dakota State in person too. He will hold a second pro day on Monday, April 19 — 10 days before the start of the 2021 NFL Draft.
North Dakota St. QB Trey Lance has now scheduled his second pro day for April 19, or 10 days before
Probably much to the delight of most of The Faithful, the pre-draft buzz surrounding former Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields landing with the San Francisco 49ers appears to be trending upwards. Of course, this wasn't unexpected. Head coach Kyle Shanahan and general manager John Lynch were in Columbus yesterday with a handful of other teams to watch Fields throw. San Francisco owns the No. 3 overall pick.
LOT of buzz connecting Fields to 3/SF in last 24 hours.— Benjamin Allbright (@AllbrightNFL) April 15,
The San Francisco 49ers announced that the team has signed former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Nate Sudfeld to a one-year deal.
The Washington Football Team made Sudfeld a sixth-round selection out of Indiana in 2016. He signed with the Eagles practice squad before the 2017 season. Sudfeld completed five-of-12 attempts (41.7 percent) for 32 yards and an interception in one game with the Eagles last season, per NFL.com.
San Francisco now has four quarterbacks on its roster. They are Jimmy Garoppolo, Josh Rosen, Josh Johnson, and now Sudfeld. The team is expected to draft a quarterback with the No. 3 overall pick, which they acquired on March 26 via a trade with the Miami Dolphins.
Sudfeld, 27, has completed 67.6 percent of his passes for 188 yards
