49ers Offensive Line

Originally posted by dlance:
This is an average OL with Trent William playing. Trent has missed games every year he's been with the 49er. He is most likely going to miss games.
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Trent William Top 5 Tackle
Colton McKivitz somewhere in the bottom 32 no a bad player not great I like him and he is a great player to have on the team.
Jake Brendel bottom 15 to 30 probably ranked around 25 ?
Dominick Puni top 15 Guard if he plays like he did last year or better.
Who is the Other Guard? Probably bottom 32
Whoever is going to be the back up Tackle is not as good as Colton McKivitz . This is the biggest problem I see. When they have an Injury they are in trouble, because they have no depth. If Ben Bartch is the starting left guard and get injured who is his back up ? Zakelj ? Burford? Hennessy? Austen Pleasants? 7th rounder Connor Colby?? Bartch and Trent are out injured what then ?

McKivitz got better last year and played better as the season went on. He should be better this year than last.
Brendel doesn't impress, but if he beats the 4 other guys on the roster who have snaps at C then he's not bad.
Puni should be better.
Bartch is the other guard and was really good in limited time last year. He looked better than Banks.

Burford and Pleasants have been good so far.

Every team has a big drop when a star gets injured. The question is will the years of training pay off.

I was hoping someone would take Brendel's job, but I felt relatively good about the rest of the starters.

It seems entirely possible to me that Puni could take over LT when Trent steps away, because if he doesn't move to LT the 49ers are not going to re-sign him since he'll price himself off the team.

I think McKivitz could well price himself off the team too, and I think he's a FA next year.

Originally posted by Scoots:
I was hoping someone would take Brendel's job, but I felt relatively good about the rest of the starters.

It seems entirely possible to me that Puni could take over LT when Trent steps away, because if he doesn't move to LT the 49ers are not going to re-sign him since he'll price himself off the team.

I think McKivitz could well price himself off the team too, and I think he's a FA next year.

I'd be shocked if they moved Puni outside. I expect a healthy dose of OL talent to be infused next off season. Colton may price himself out as a FA, but if Trent does move on after this season they might invest in Colton.

Hennessy is an intriguing center option. I was a big fan of him during the draft. I think he actually played pretty well as a healthy starter in 2021 into 2022. Knee and back injuries have hurt his development, wonder if he's actually participating in camp right now (or still nursing an injury)?

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by Scoots:
I was hoping someone would take Brendel's job, but I felt relatively good about the rest of the starters.

It seems entirely possible to me that Puni could take over LT when Trent steps away, because if he doesn't move to LT the 49ers are not going to re-sign him since he'll price himself off the team.

I think McKivitz could well price himself off the team too, and I think he's a FA next year.

I'd be shocked if they moved Puni outside. I expect a healthy dose of OL talent to be infused next off season. Colton may price himself out as a FA, but if Trent does move on after this season they might invest in Colton.

Hennessy is an intriguing center option. I was a big fan of him during the draft. I think he actually played pretty well as a healthy starter in 2021 into 2022. Knee and back injuries have hurt his development, wonder if he's actually participating in camp right now (or still nursing an injury)?

I just think they don't want to spend big money at any position other than LT, and Puni could probably do the job and is the best young OL on the team so far.

Heard a few beat guys raving about Pleasants so we'll have to watch what he does too.

Haven't seen anything on Hennessy

Trent, Burford
Bartch, Colby
Brendel, Hennessy
Puni, Moss
McKivitz, Pleasants

Not really happy with penciling in Moss and Colby as backups. I think the OTs are most likely Pleasants and Burford with Zakelj and Dillard losing out even though I like them fine, Zakelj in particular because the team is invested with developing him. Burford has been practicing exclusively at OT which makes me think they would rather not shift him back to LG if they don't have to. Alarcon and Gutierrez are not close. Johnson is 28 years old, on his 5th <?> team and has 4 total NFL snaps ... not likely to make it. Nugent I would love to beat out Hennessy, but it doesn't look likely.

They are pretty clearly betting on Foerster.