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Kyle Shanahan to Attend Justin Fields' Second Pro Day

For a while, everybody's best guess was Mac Jones, but experts have begun to walk back those predictions, because the 49ers just might prefer Fields.
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Kyle Shanahan to Attend Justin Fields' Second Pro Day
Kyle Shanahan to Attend Justin Fields' Second Pro Day

No one seems to know which quarterback the 49ers will draft.

For a while, everybody's best guess was Mac Jones, but experts have begun to walk back those predictions, because the 49ers just might prefer Justin Fields.

Both Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch will attend Fields' second Pro Day this Wednesday -- they missed the first one while they were watching Mac Jones throw at Alabama's Pro Day. The only other team who will watch Fields throw this week is the New England Patriots, who own the 15h pick, which means they're not currently in a position to take him. So the session almost feels like a private workout for the 49ers.

But even if the Fields were to impress the 49ers at his Pro Day, who's to say he'll be available when they pick? The Jets went to his first Pro Day, and they own the No. 2 pick. Why wouldn't they want the most athletic quarterback in the draft who has played in big games and faced intense scrutiny and pressure since high school? Seems like Fields is equipped the handle the scrutiny and pressure he'll face in New York. Neither BYU's Zach Wilson nor North Dakota State's Trey Lance had to handle those things in college. The New York media could blow their minds.

Is it possible both Shanahan and Jets new head coach Robert Saleh both want Fields? Hell yes. Why wouldn't they want the same guy? They coached on the same team for four years.

Don't be surprised if the Jets take Fields and leave the 49ers to choose between Zach Wilson, Mac Jones and Trey Lance.

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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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