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Jay Glazer Expects the 49ers to Enter a Bidding War for Odell Beckham Jr.

Beckham is extremely famous, and the media would drool all over the 49ers if they sign him.
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Jay Glazer Expects the 49ers to Enter a Bidding War for Odell Beckham Jr.
Jay Glazer Expects the 49ers to Enter a Bidding War for Odell Beckham Jr.

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The 49ers just might add another big name to their roster.

Odell Beckham Jr. will be medically cleared this week following an ACL injury he suffered in the Super Bowl, and the 49ers are expected to be one of many teams that tries to sign him, according to FOX NFL Insider Jay Glazer.

"It's probably going to be a team that can go win a ring right now," Glazer said Sunday on Fox. "I know Von Miller was trying to get him up there to Buffalo, a team like San Francisco, the Dallas Cowboys. And he still has some love for the Rams...I think there’s going to be a big bidding war for Odell."

It's no surprise that the 49ers would show interest in Beckham, considering they just traded four draft picks for Christian McCaffrey. The 49ers are all-in to win a Super Bowl this season, and they're open to adding as many splashy, big-named players as possible.

Beckham is extremely famous, and the media would drool all over the 49ers if they sign him. And while he might take a month or two to get in football shape, theoretically he could help the 49ers in the playoffs if they get there. And he's a free agent, so the 49ers wouldn't have to give up a draft pick to get him.

Beckham certainly wouldn't make the 49ers worse. But would he make them better?

Marginally. He's 30, he doesn't fill a major need and he has torn the same ACL twice since 2020. "For NFL WR’s who have a first time ACL tear, research shows a significant decrease in most performance metrics," tweeted Dr. Nirav Pandya, Associate Professor of UCSF Orthopedic Surgery. "A revision ACL (second time), can impact those metrics even more. It’s hard at that position due to the stress on the knee."

I'm thinking there's a less-splashy, more-impactful move the 49ers could make.

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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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