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Former 49ers Cornerback Signs with the Detroit Lions

Ya-Sin came to the 49ers last offseason along with a group of veterans who no longer are on the team.
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Jan 5, 2025; Glendale, Arizona, USA; San Francisco 49ers cornerback Rock Ya-Sin (33) against the Arizona Cardinals at State Farm Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images
Jan 5, 2025; Glendale, Arizona, USA; San Francisco 49ers cornerback Rock Ya-Sin (33) against the Arizona Cardinals at State Farm Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images | Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images

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The 49ers just lost another veteran.

Cornerback Rock Ya-Sin has signed with the Detroit Lions according to The NFL Network's Mike Garafolo. Ya-Sin spent last season with the 49ers and appeared in 13 games but started none. Mostly, he played on the worst special-teams unit in the NFL. So it makes sense why the 49ers let him go.

Ya-Sin came to the 49ers last offseason along with a group of veterans who no longer are on the team. Those veterans are Leonard Floyd, Maliek Collins and De'Vondre Campbell.

It's unclear who wanted those players in the first place, but last offseason, the 49ers' defensive coordinator was Nick Sorensen and their assistant head coach was Brandon Staley. They probably were partially responsible for those signings.

Now those two coaches are gone and have been replaced by Robert Saleh and Gus Bradley, respectively. And those two have no connection to Campbell, Collins, Floyd or Ya-Sin, so they're out. Saleh and Bradley will find their own guys.

Last season, the 49ers were coming off a Super Bowl loss, so they filled out their roster with journeymen veterans, a plan which backfired.

This year, the plan is to fill out the roster with cheap rookies and hope for better results. Look for the 49ers to draft a cornerback to compete with Tre Brown and Darrell Luter Jr. The winner of the competition will be the No. 3 cornerback behind Deommodore Lenoir and Renardo Green.

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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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