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Jacob Cowing Says it was Easy for him to Memorize the 49ers Playbook

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Grant Cohn

May 10, 2024; Santa Clara, CA, USA; San Francisco 49ers rookie wide receiver Jacob Cowing (83) runs
May 10, 2024; Santa Clara, CA, USA; San Francisco 49ers rookie wide receiver Jacob Cowing (83) runs / Robert Kupbens-USA TODAY Sports
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SANTA CLARA -- Jacob Cowing spoke to the media on Friday after rookie minicamp. Here's what he said.

Q: What's your first impression of the playbook?

COWING: "I'm going to be honest, coming from the University of Arizona with Coach Jedd Fisch and his NFL background, it's very similar to how he threw the playbook at me when he first got there. Very similar to how they threw the playbook at me here. Nothing new to me. It was kind of easy for me to pick it up. I have special things I like to do to memorize things. For me to memorize the playbook was kind of easy."

Q: Kyle Shanahan asks his wide receivers to be physical run blockers. Is that something you can do?

COWING: "100 percent. Coming from U of A with Coach Fisch, same thing. Coach Fisch and Coach Shanahan are very similar. They ask for the receivers to block and get physical. It's the same mentality I had at Arizona. I think I can get the job done, do the best that I can to go out there and get Ws."

Q: Steve Smith did a breakdown of you and showed that you're an advanced route runner. Where does that come from?

COWING: "That comes from film study. It also comes from the coaches in my past that helped me break down film to understand what defenses are trying to do. That's my whole background. I just watch film and see what defenses like to do and coverages that they throw at you."

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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.