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The 49ers Re-Sign Kyle Juszczyk for 2 Years, $8 Million

This is confusing.
Grant Cohn|
Nov 10, 2024; Tampa, Florida, USA; San Francisco 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk (44), punter Mitch Wishnowsky (3) and wide receiver Deebo Samuel Sr. (1) against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers prior to the game at Raymond James Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images
Nov 10, 2024; Tampa, Florida, USA; San Francisco 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk (44), punter Mitch Wishnowsky (3) and wide receiver Deebo Samuel Sr. (1) against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers prior to the game at Raymond James Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images | Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images

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This is confusing.

The 49ers just re-signed fullback Kyle Juszczyk to a two-year, $8 million deal according to ESPN's Adam Schefter. Keep in mind, they released Juszczyk last week.

At the Combine a few weeks ago, general manager John Lynch said the 49ers need to get younger and more cost-effective. Signing a fullback who will be 34 in April doesn't exactly accomplish that goal.

When the 49ers signed backup tight end Luke Farrell to a three-year, $20.25 million deal this week, people explained the large investment as a philosophical shift in head coach Kyle Shanahan. Surely, he had evolved and realized he didn't need a fullback anymore. A second tight end would be much more dangerous.

Wrong. Shanahan hasn't evolved. He just chose to spend the team's extremely limited budget on two blockers who aren't offensive linemen.

Instead of signing these two guys, they could have signed an actual offensive lineman such as Jaylon Moore who now is the starting left tackle for the Chiefs. Or, the 49ers could have signed Dre Greenlaw, who was one of their best players when healthy. He had injury issues last year, but he also comes with real upside because he's a difference-maker who makes the 49ers defense elite. Without him, it's soft.

The 49ers are a six-win team that has gotten decidedly worse this offseason. They're hoping Trent Williams and Christian McCaffrey both play 17 games next season and an easy schedule allows them to sneak into the playoffs with Juszczyk leading the way.

Good luck.

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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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