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49ers Should Bring Back Wes Welker to be their Wide Receivers Coach

The 49ers need more coaches who don't want to be friends with their players and know what it takes to win a championship.
Grant Cohn|
Jun 12, 2024; Foxborough, MA, USA; NFL coach Wes Welker poses with his wife Anna and son at the New England Patriots Hall of Fame induction ceremony for Tom Brady at Gillette Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Eric Canha-Imagn Images
Jun 12, 2024; Foxborough, MA, USA; NFL coach Wes Welker poses with his wife Anna and son at the New England Patriots Hall of Fame induction ceremony for Tom Brady at Gillette Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Eric Canha-Imagn Images | Eric Canha-Imagn Images

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The 49ers have an intriguing opportunity.

The Miami Dolphins just fired wide receivers coach Wes Welker. Today at the NFL Scouting Combine, Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel insisted that Tyreek Hill didn't have Welker fired, which makes you wonder if Hill really did have Welker fired.

Either way, the Dolphins just lost an outstanding assistant coach.

Before Welker worked for Miami, he was the 49ers wide receivers coach. And under his direction, Deebo Samuel had the best season of his career. That was back in 2021. The next season, Welker left for the Dolphins. And since then, Samuel in particular has been a giant disapointment.

Maybe it's an issue of motivation.

Welker is extremely demanding as a coach. He challenges players to stay in shape -- he used to run with Samuel before and after practice.

Welker's replacement on the 49ers, Leonard Hankerson, doesn't seem to be as demanding. He seems like a nice guy who knows the scheme and gets along with the players, but he doesn't necessarily get the best out of them.

That's why the 49ers should bring back Welker. He knows their scheme and knows their locker room. He's the kind of coach the 49ers need to get turn things around. He played with Tom Brady during his career and has the highest standards.

The 49ers need more coaches who don't want to be friends with their players and know what it takes to win a championship. Welker would be perfect.

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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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