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49ers DE Mykel Williams Explains How He Can Improve his Pass Rush

"I have the swipe, I can go long arm and I can go power."
Grant Cohn|
Mykel Williams, DE, Georgia was selected 11th overall by the San Francisco 49ers during the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft at Lambeau Field on April 24, 2025 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Mykel Williams, DE, Georgia was selected 11th overall by the San Francisco 49ers during the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft at Lambeau Field on April 24, 2025 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. | Mark Hoffman / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

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SANTA CLARA -- Mykel Williams just had his introductory press conference with the 49ers. Here's what he said about his growth as a pass rusher, his desire to pick Nick Bosa's brain and his interactions with Robert Saleh.

Q: Where do you want to grow as a pass rusher?

WILLIAMS: "With my pass-rush plan. I have the swipe, I can go long arm and I can go power. But to be a better player, I need to be more decisive in what I'm going to do in my pass rush."

Q: What do you want to learn from Nick Bosa?

WILLIAMS: "I want to learn everything from him. I want to learn how he rush how he rush. I want to learn why he does the stuff he does. I want to learn how he thinks. I can't want to ask him questions, ask him what he's seen and why he did what he did. Try to take some stuff from him."

Q: Have you talked much with Saleh?

WILLIAMS: "I spoke with him shortly earlier. It's been great. On my visit, he expressed to me the plan and I love the plan. We see eye to eye on how I'll be used in the system. It was great."

Q: What is that plan?

WILLIAMS: "We really gotta get back into detail about it and go watch some ball and get on the field and be able to put stuff in position before I can disclose some of that with you."

Q: Do you take pride in playing all three downs?

WILLIAMS: "Yeah, I take pride in that. I want to be able to be on the field every down. If you're able to do that, they're going to take care of you when it's time to take care of you. So I want to be able to be on the field as long as I can."

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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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