Jerry Rice played with a Hall of Fame safety in Ronnie Lott. Lott recently discussed the San Francisco 49ers' second-year safety, Talanoa Hufanga, who has been putting on a show this season, including a game-changing pick-six off Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford on Monday night.

"The kid is phenomenal, and what I love is the timing, and the anticipation, and the feel [for the game]," Lott recently told KNBR.


Rice agrees with everything said by his former teammate and is equally impressed by the 49ers' young safety.

"He's all over the field making plays," Rice said Tuesday morning on 95.7 The Game's The Morning Roast. "You can tell that he's very smart. He's intelligent. He knows his opponent. ... The interception play, he already knew that was coming. He knew it, the way he broke on that. Certain formations and stuff like that, he knew that was coming.

"And to have that focus, that mindset, then to finish it off, you can know it's coming, but you've still got to be able to finish the play, and that was something that Bill Walsh always talked about. He would say a lot of guys can get into position, but then, all of a sudden, they can't finish the play.

"[Hufanga has] got all of that. Like I said, very smart, he's a playmaker, and he's going to cause a lot of havoc on that football field. He's going to be in position to make a play."

San Francisco beat Los Angeles 24-9 at Levi's Stadium, improving its record to 2-2.


You can listen to the entire conversation with Rice below.



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