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Report: Wide Receiver Gabe Davis is Visiting the 49ers

The 49ers could add depth to their wide receiver room this week.

Grant Cohn

Oct 27, 2024; Jacksonville, Florida, USA; Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Gabe Davis (0) before the game against the Green Bay Packers at EverBank Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Morgan Tencza-Imagn Images
Oct 27, 2024; Jacksonville, Florida, USA; Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Gabe Davis (0) before the game against the Green Bay Packers at EverBank Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Morgan Tencza-Imagn Images / Morgan Tencza-Imagn Images
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The 49ers could add depth to their wide receiver room this week.

Free agent wide receiver Gabe Davis is visiting the 49ers today according to reports. Davis recently was released by the Jacksonville Jaguars just one year after signing a lucrative multi-year extension. He caught just 20 passes in 10 games.

Davis, 26, has started 56 games in his career. He originally was selected by the Buffalo Bills in Round 4 of the 2020 NFL Draft. And in four seasons in Buffalo, he averaged 16.7 yards per catch and scored 27 touchdowns. He was a dangerous deep-threat no. 2 receiver who also blocked well.

His blocking ability makes him a good fit for the 49ers because they require their wide receivers to block during run plays. But he's a deep threat, and Brock Purdy isn't much of a deep receiver. He's more effective throwing intermediate passes over the middle, and Davis isn't a great route runner.

Davis is a better fit with a quarterback such as Josh Allen who has an absolute cannon. He should sign with the Seattle Seahawks and play with Sam Darnold who actually has a strong arm.

The 49ers don't need Davis anyway. They recently signed veteran Demarcus Robinson, they just drafted rookie Jordan Watkins in Round 4, they drafted Jacob Cowing in Round 4 last year, plus they still have Bradon Aiyuk who will return at some point next season from a knee injury.

I'm guessing the 49ers will offer Davis a cheap one-year deal with zero guaranteed money and he'll sign somewhere else.

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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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