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The first round of the 2024 NFL Draft has concluded, and wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk remains on the San Francisco 49ers roster, as many anticipated. However, both general manager John Lynch and head coach Kyle Shanahan were receptive to listening to offers from other teams, and indeed, teams made inquiries. Ultimately, the offers weren't enticing enough to persuade the 49ers to part ways with Aiyuk, who served as the team's top receiver last season. However, Matt Barrows of The Athletic provided some insight into the compensation other teams discussed in preliminary talks with the 49ers. "The team took several phone calls for Aiyuk in the run-up

The San Francisco 49ers have a new draft class. Some liked what the team did. Some did not. But that's to be expected. The 49ers draft class, along with undrafted rookie free agents will be preparing to go to rookie minicamp soon. They also have a handful of others they have invited to the minicamp as a tryout. So we hope to get plenty of news about the new rookies in the coming weeks. For now, we've opened another edition of the 49ers Webzone Mailbag. Let's jump in and take a look around. What are your thoughts on getting "your guy" versus "draft value"? The internet has been reacting accordingly over Pearsall's perceived draft value. - Justin I think getting the player you want is more important than draft value. Especially when

San Francisco 49ers general manager John Lynch and head coach Kyle Shanahan spoke to reporters after the second day of the 2024 NFL Draft. Here is everything they had to say. Transcript provided by the San Francisco 49ers Communications staff. We were just on the conference call with OL Dominick Puni and he suggested that you guys are probably looking at him as a guard, obviously he played tackle as well. What's the plan for him? John Lynch: "Yeah, our belief is that we're going to start him on the inside as a guard. But the cool thing about Dominick is, it's not often you can say this about a player, that he can play all five. And we believe that's the case with him. He snapped in practice, he snapped in the Senior Bowl

San Francisco 49ers general manager John Lynch and head coach Kyle Shanahan spoke to reporters at the end of the final day of the 2024 NFL Draft. Here is everything they had to say. Transcript provided by the San Francisco 49ers Communications staff. You really went for experience, didn't you? A lot of guys who played a lot of college football. Was that kind of a philosophy going into this? John Lynch: "We just went with the players that we really liked and appreciated. One thing I used on some of the earlier players was consensus. It was a big Draft where if every avenue of our organization can get behind someone, we felt really good about these guys, really good football players. Starting with [S] Malik [Mustapha] today,