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49ers Rank 13th in Post-Minicamp NFL Power Rankings

The 49ers are in limbo.
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Jun 11, 2025; Santa Clara, CA, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterbacks Mac Jones (10) and Brock Purdy (13) work on passing drills during a team OTA at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images
Jun 11, 2025; Santa Clara, CA, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterbacks Mac Jones (10) and Brock Purdy (13) work on passing drills during a team OTA at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images | D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images

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The 49ers are in limbo.

They still have their core of veteran Pro Bowlers, but they're getting older. And they have five or six rookies who need to start and play well this season for the 49ers to make the playoffs.

That's why Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio ranks the 49ers 13th out of 32 teams in his post-minicamp NFL power rankings.

"Don't be surprised if they rebound all the way to the NFC Championship, and possibly beyond," writes Florio.

That's a strange thing to write about a team he ranks 13th. It seems Florio would be surprised if the 49ers rebounded all the way to the NFC Championship and possibly beyond. Otherwise, he would have ranked them higher.

In addition, it seems the 49ers themselves would be surprised if they made a legitimate Super Bowl run, considering they currently have more than $46 million in salary-cap space that they don't seem motivated to spend. If they truly thought they were a player or two away from returning to the NFC Championship game, they have more than enough cap space to get those players. And Jalen Ramsey is on the trade block right now. And they can afford him. But it doesn't seem like they want him.

I'm guessing the 49ers want to see what they have in their rookies during training camp, preseason and the first few weeks of the regular season. If they're not quite ready to contribute but the team is winning anyway, don't be surprised if the 49ers make a big trade or two before the deadline.

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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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