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49ers to Host Texas A&M DE Shemar Stewart on Top-30 Visit

This just might be the player the 49ers end up drafting with the 11th pick in a couple weeks.
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Jan 29, 2025; Mobile, AL, USA; American team defensive lineman Shemar Stewart of Texas A&M (14) works in drills during Senior Bowl practice for the National team at Hancock Whitney Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Vasha Hunt-Imagn Images
Jan 29, 2025; Mobile, AL, USA; American team defensive lineman Shemar Stewart of Texas A&M (14) works in drills during Senior Bowl practice for the National team at Hancock Whitney Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Vasha Hunt-Imagn Images | Vasha Hunt-Imagn Images

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This just might be the player the 49ers end up drafting with the 11th pick in a couple weeks.

Shemar Stewart is scheduled to visit the 49ers soon for one of their 30 pre-draft meetings with NFL Draft prospects according to The NFL Network's Ian Rapoport. Stewart is projected to get drafted in the top 20 picks of the upcoming Draft after performing extremely well at the Combine in February.

Unfortunately, Stewart did not perform nearly as well on the field as a player during his three seasons at Texas A&M.

To be fair, Stewart wasn't bad. He simply was inconsistent. He generated pressure but also missed lots of tackles and didn't finish many sacks. In three seasons, he brought down the quarterback just 4.5 times.

Perhaps Texas A&M's coaching staff is more to blame for Stewart's lack of production than Stewart himself. Because at the Combine this offseason, he proved he's one of the most athletic players in the country when he ran a 4.59 a 267 lbs.

Athletically, Stewart is built like Myles Garrett, who's the best defensive end in the NFL. To be sure, Stewart is nowhere near as good as Garrett, but a good defensive line coach might be able to unlock Stewart's vast potential.

Which brings us to 49ers defensive line coach Kris Kocurek. He's one of the highest-paid D-line coaches in the league because he's good at developing players. Maybe the 49ers think he can turn Stewart into a star the way he turned Ziggy Ansah into a star 10 years ago.

I'm guessing the 49ers will draft Stewart.

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Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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