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49ers to Host Washington State WR Kyle Williams on Top-30 Visit

It's easy to see why the 49ers are interested.
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Jan 28, 2025; Mobile, AL, USA; National team wide receiver Kyle Williams of Washington State (11) sets up at the line during Senior Bowl practice for the National team at Hancock Whitney Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Vasha Hunt-Imagn Images
Jan 28, 2025; Mobile, AL, USA; National team wide receiver Kyle Williams of Washington State (11) sets up at the line during Senior Bowl practice for the National team at Hancock Whitney Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Vasha Hunt-Imagn Images | Vasha Hunt-Imagn Images

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The 49ers might view wide receiver as a bigger need than we realize.

They still have Brandon Aiyuk, but who knows when he'll be back? They also signed Demarcus Robinson, but he's a 30-year-old career backup.

They drafted Ricky Pearsall in Round 1 last year, and he showed promise in the final two games of the season, but he's far from established.

And then they have Jauan Jennings, who's good but slow and entering the final season of his contract. Which means he probably will price himself off the team.

Perhaps that's why the 49ers are taking a close look at wide receivers who are projected to get picked on Day 2 of the upcoming NFL Draft. According to Arye Pulli, the 49ers have a top-30 visit scheduled at their facility with Washington State wide receiver Kyle Williams.

Williams currently is projected to get drafted in Rounds 3 or 4. The 49ers probably could take him with their compensatory pick in Round 3 (pick No. 100). And they just might take him if he's available.

Williams is a bit of a gadget player like Deebo Samuel in the sense that he's not a great route runner but he's excellent after the catch. He's also extremely explosive -- he ran a 4.4 at the NFL Scouting Combine in February. As a fifth-year senior in 2024, he gained 1,255 yards from scrimmage and scored 14 touchdowns.

It's easy to see why the 49ers are interested.

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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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