49ers select Connor Colby-OG-Iowa with the 249th pick in the 2025 NFL Draft

Originally posted by dj43:

Originally posted by mitpdub:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:
Puni is a great player. Think he's still injured. Rushed back early. Him and Colby can be the future.

Can Colby play center ? When all the OLinemen are healthy that's our weak spot.

Let's all hold our breath, but Brendel has just stacked the best two games of his career back-to-back and is now ranked in the top 5 centers in the league. Note his high rating in the assessment of 49er players in the article on the front page.

How can he get such a high rating this week when he allowed 4 pressures?
I'm referring to Brendel.

Originally posted by Oilcan:

Originally posted by dj43:

Originally posted by mitpdub:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:
Puni is a great player. Think he's still injured. Rushed back early. Him and Colby can be the future.

Can Colby play center ? When all the OLinemen are healthy that's our weak spot.

Let's all hold our breath, but Brendel has just stacked the best two games of his career back-to-back and is now ranked in the top 5 centers in the league. Note his high rating in the assessment of 49er players in the article on the front page.

How can he get such a high rating this week when he allowed 4 pressures?
I'm referring to Brendel.

In their Premium program, they cite how they value various data. I haven't bought that package for a couple of years now but I do recall that pressures had the least amount of negative impact on the PP rating. For example, and I don't know if this is true, but if a pass is completed despite a pressure, it does not have a much of an impact as if the pass is incomplete.

Originally posted by dj43:

Originally posted by mitpdub:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:
Puni is a great player. Think he's still injured. Rushed back early. Him and Colby can be the future.

Can Colby play center ? When all the OLinemen are healthy that's our weak spot.

Let's all hold our breath, but Brendel has just stacked the best two games of his career back-to-back and is now ranked in the top 5 centers in the league. Note his high rating in the assessment of 49er players in the article on the front page.

He was absolute trash per normal vs the Seahawks I don't care what PFF said he was better vs the Saints but thats not saying much.

Originally posted by DaleGribble:

Originally posted by dj43:

Originally posted by mitpdub:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:
Puni is a great player. Think he's still injured. Rushed back early. Him and Colby can be the future.

Can Colby play center ? When all the OLinemen are healthy that's our weak spot.

Let's all hold our breath, but Brendel has just stacked the best two games of his career back-to-back and is now ranked in the top 5 centers in the league. Note his high rating in the assessment of 49er players in the article on the front page.

He was absolute trash per normal vs the Seahawks I don't care what PFF said he was better vs the Saints but thats not saying much.

The professionals use PFF on the regular, will disagree with you. Note the ratings on the front page. In checking just now, Brendel is actually ranked #2, just behind Linderbaum of Baltimore.

Originally posted by dj43:

Originally posted by Oilcan:

Originally posted by dj43:

Originally posted by mitpdub:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:
Puni is a great player. Think he's still injured. Rushed back early. Him and Colby can be the future.

Can Colby play center ? When all the OLinemen are healthy that's our weak spot.

Let's all hold our breath, but Brendel has just stacked the best two games of his career back-to-back and is now ranked in the top 5 centers in the league. Note his high rating in the assessment of 49er players in the article on the front page.

How can he get such a high rating this week when he allowed 4 pressures?
I'm referring to Brendel.

In their Premium program, they cite how they value various data. I haven't bought that package for a couple of years now but I do recall that pressures had the least amount of negative impact on the PP rating. For example, and I don't know if this is true, but if a pass is completed despite a pressure, it does not have a much of an impact as if the pass is incomplete.

Thanks for the explanation.

Originally posted by dj43:

Originally posted by DaleGribble:

Originally posted by dj43:

Originally posted by mitpdub:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:
Puni is a great player. Think he's still injured. Rushed back early. Him and Colby can be the future.

Can Colby play center ? When all the OLinemen are healthy that's our weak spot.

Let's all hold our breath, but Brendel has just stacked the best two games of his career back-to-back and is now ranked in the top 5 centers in the league. Note his high rating in the assessment of 49er players in the article on the front page.

He was absolute trash per normal vs the Seahawks I don't care what PFF said he was better vs the Saints but thats not saying much.

The professionals use PFF on the regular, will disagree with you. Note the ratings on the front page. In checking just now, Brendel is actually ranked #2, just behind Linderbaum of Baltimore.

#2 thats absolutely absurd I'll go ahead and believe my lying eyes.

He settled the line play out there and made it look solid. If he keeps it up no reason to give Barch back the starting gig

Originally posted by Hangman_52:
He settled the line play out there and made it look solid. If he keeps it up no reason to give Barch back the starting gig

I thought he was getting much better push than bartch was too. I'd have to rewatch the film and all that but it looked like an improvement having him in at LG. I'd rather start the rookie and have bartch as our backup.

Originally posted by DaleGribble:

Originally posted by dj43:

Originally posted by mitpdub:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:
Puni is a great player. Think he's still injured. Rushed back early. Him and Colby can be the future.

Can Colby play center ? When all the OLinemen are healthy that's our weak spot.

Let's all hold our breath, but Brendel has just stacked the best two games of his career back-to-back and is now ranked in the top 5 centers in the league. Note his high rating in the assessment of 49er players in the article on the front page.

He was absolute trash per normal vs the Seahawks I don't care what PFF said he was better vs the Saints but thats not saying much.

The entire line was awful. Pretty hard to grade one when they were all terrible :)

Hopefully he can continue to do a good job since he'll have to fill in for Bartch for several games it looks like.

scoops out the 1tech with ease.

Originally posted by Heroism:
scoops out the 1tech with ease.

not all the way through the game, but 49ers rookie 7th rounder LG Connor Colby (#75) has done some nice things in the run game against the Saints. Really liked him reaching the nose tackle here. pic.twitter.com/FnnLRRomFE

— Nate Tice (@Nate_Tice) September 15, 2025

Dog

Originally posted by tankle104:
I thought he was getting much better push than bartch was too. I'd have to rewatch the film and all that but it looked like an improvement having him in at LG. I'd rather start the rookie and have bartch as our backup.

I agree. It wasn't just push, either. He did a really good job at keeping his blocks contained laterally and keeping a lane open. Also, his footwork looked really efficient to me in real time. That bodes well for a rookie that hasn't had the opportunity to bulk up to proper NFL strength. With a proper NFL off season under his belt next year, he could be a real monster.

But... it's a long season and (and despite their sacks against the Cardinals) we don't really know how good the Saint's D-line is. Time will tell, but I'm pretty damned optimistic right now.

Edit: I'm puzzled by his PFF grade. It's one of those deals where the eye test and the PFF grade don't seem to be logging the same reality.

Originally posted by 49ersRing:

With LG Connor Colby taking over for the injured Ben Bartch, here's Connor's tape against the Saints 🍿 pic.twitter.com/lR0ZdX2Mil

— Coach Yac 🗣 (@Coach_Yac) September 15, 2025

This is what seizing your moment and taking a mother f**kers job looks like