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Daniel Brunskill Agrees to Sign with the Titans

Brunskill started 42 games for the 49ers since the 49ers signed him as an undrafted free agent in 2019, and he played every position on the offensive line.
Daniel Brunskill Agrees to Sign with the Titans
Daniel Brunskill Agrees to Sign with the Titans

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The 49ers keep losing starters.

Now Daniel Brunskil has agreed to sign a contract with the Tennessee Titans, according to reports. The Titans new general manager Ran Carthon came from the 49ers and knows Brunskill personally, which explains this move.

Brunskill started 42 games for the 49ers since the 49ers signed him as an undrafted free agent in 2019, and he played every position on the offensive line -- tackle, guard and center. And he was underrated. He was a better guard than rookie Spencer Burford, who took Brunskill's starting spot this season and split time with him at right guard. And Brunskill is a better tackle than Colton McKivitz, who just inhereted the 49ers' starting right tackle job after Mike McGlinchey signed with the Denver Broncos.

The 49ers phased out Brunskill last season because they wanted to get their younger offensive linemen such as Burford experience so they could improve, which is understandable. And Brunskill isn't a huge loss. But he is a steady, solid player who is versatile, and every team needs one of those on the offensive line.

Now the 49ers have lost two starting offensive linemen this offseason -- Brunskill and McGlinchey. But they've agreed to re-sign starting center Jake Brendel to a four-year $20 million deal, which means the 49ers should return four starting offensive linemen from 2022 -- left tackle Trent Williams, left guard Aaron Banks, center Jake Brendel and right guard Spencer Burford. That's one Hall of Fame player and three solid bargains.

The 49ers could use another special player on the offensive line.


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Grant Cohn
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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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