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Report: Chiefs are Signing 49ers OT Jaylon Moore for 2 Years, $30 Mil

Meanwhile, the 49ers' starting right tackle is Colton McKivitz, who will get paid less than $4 million this season. He's a glorified backup.
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Aug 14, 2021; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers offensive tackle Jaylon Moore (76) blocks Kansas City Chiefs defensive end Demone Harris (96) during the third quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images
Aug 14, 2021; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers offensive tackle Jaylon Moore (76) blocks Kansas City Chiefs defensive end Demone Harris (96) during the third quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images | Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images

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This is interesting.

The Kansas City Chiefs are signing 49ers swing tackle Jaylon Moore to be their starting left tackle according to Sports Illustrated's Albert Breer, and they're giving him a two-year, $30 million deal. Not top-tier money but good money nonetheless.

This signing makes you wonder why the 49ers almost never played Moore. He was their backup left tackle, which means he only played when Trent Williams was out. And this past season, Williams missed the last seven games, so Moore got an extended period of playing time and performed well. And how he's a starter for a Super Bowl caliber team.

Meanwhile, the 49ers' starting right tackle is Colton McKivitz, who will get paid less than $4 million this season. He's a glorified backup.

Moore is much better in pass protection than McKivitz, who is not equipped to protect a quarterback's blindside. He's too slow. But the 49ers always maintained that Moore was a better fit at left tackle than right tackle, which is strange. I've heard of right tackles who can't play left tackle but not left tackles who can't play right tackle.

It will be interesting to compare Moore's upcoming season to McKivitz's.

Now, the 49ers will have to find a replacement for Moore as the primary swing tackle. Expect the 49ers to draft an offensive tackle, perhaps in Round 5 which is when they selected him in the 2021 NFL Draft.

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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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