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PFF Says the 49ers Should Sign Chicago Bears Guard Teven Jenkins

Starting left guard Aaron Banks will be a free agent and the 49ers probably won't re-sign him.
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Nov 3, 2024; Glendale, Arizona, USA; Chicago Bears guard Teven Jenkins (76) against the Arizona Cardinals at State Farm Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images
Nov 3, 2024; Glendale, Arizona, USA; Chicago Bears guard Teven Jenkins (76) against the Arizona Cardinals at State Farm Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images | Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images

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The 49ers need to sign a guard this offseason.

Starting left guard Aaron Banks will be a free agent and the 49ers probably won't re-sign him. In four years with the team, Banks was up and down and frequently injured. The 49ers need an upgrade.

That's why Pro Football Focus says the 49ers should sign Chicago Bears left guard Teven Jenkins when he hits free agency in March.

"A series of nagging injuries plagued Jenkins’ 2024 campaign, but even still, he managed to produce well on the interior of this Bears’ offensive line," writes PFF analyst Mason Cameron. "His 75.8 PFF pass-blocking grade stands as a career high for the 26-year-old guard after he allowed just a 3.8% pressure rate (also a career high). The Niners nailed their selection of Dominick Puni in the third round of the 2024 NFL Draft but still need to build up their interior. Adding Jenkins to the left side would complement both Puni at the other guard spot and Trent Williams on the outside."

The Bears drafted Jenkins in Round 2 with pick no. 39 in the NFL Draft, and the 49ers drafted Banks nine spots later. Both became full-time starters in 2022, and Jenkins has been consistently better than Banks, although neither has played a full season.

Jenkins presumably will be more expensive than Banks, so it will be interesting to see if the 49ers pay up. They haven't made major investments into the guard position under John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan.

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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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