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49ers Promote Three Key Members of Front Office

The 49ers promoted three key members of their front office on Thursday, and John Lynch was not one of them.

Grant Cohn

Jan 29, 2025; Mobile, AL, USA; San Francisco 49ers general manager John Lynch watches drills with San Francisco 49ers director of player personnel RJ Gillen during Senior Bowl practice for the American team at Hancock Whitney Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Vasha Hunt-Imagn Images
Jan 29, 2025; Mobile, AL, USA; San Francisco 49ers general manager John Lynch watches drills with San Francisco 49ers director of player personnel RJ Gillen during Senior Bowl practice for the American team at Hancock Whitney Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Vasha Hunt-Imagn Images / Vasha Hunt-Imagn Images
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The 49ers promoted three key members of their front office on Thursday, and John Lynch was not one of them.

Instead, the 49ers promoted Tariq Ahmad from Director of Player Personnel to Vice President, Player Personnel, they promoted RJ Gillen from Director of Player Personnel to Assistant General Manager, and they promoted Brian Hampton from Vice President, Football Administration to Assistant General Manager as well.

Which means the 49ers do not hold these men responsible for their miserable 6-11 season. Instead, these three are seen are key members of the organization's future. And if John Lynch were to retire or get fired, one of them probably would replace him.

Which brings us to Lynch. Two years ago, the 49ers promoted him from General Manager to President of Football Operations/General Manager. You'd think he would receive another promotion today along with his underlings, but he didn't. Nor did he receive a contract extension. And his contract expires after the 2026 season.

So it seems as though Lynch could be on the hot seat. His potential replacements just got promoted while he's a year away from being a lame-duck general manager. If the 49ers make the playoffs this upcoming season, he should be fine. But if they were to miss the playoffs for any reason, he might get replaced.

Maybe that's why Lynch has been doing interviews recently, reminding everyone how young the 49ers are and how they're going to take some lumps this season.

Sounds like a guy who's making excuses before the season starts just in case.

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GRANT COHN

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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