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Pro Football Focus Gives the 49ers' Offseason a "D" Grade

I completely agree.
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May 9, 2025; Santa Clara, CA, USA; San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan, right, confers with defensive coordinator Robert Saleh during the teamís rookie minicamp. Mandatory Credit: D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images
May 9, 2025; Santa Clara, CA, USA; San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan, right, confers with defensive coordinator Robert Saleh during the teamís rookie minicamp. Mandatory Credit: D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images | D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images

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Not everyone is a fan of what the 49ers did this offseason.

They're a six-win team that said goodbye to nine starters and signed no one to replace them. Instead, they want lots of rookies and second-year players to start. Which means the 49ers might be really good in 2026, but they could have some growing pains in 2025.

And that's why Pro Football Focus gives the 49ers' offseason a "D" grade.

"Overall, the 49ers appeared to get worse this offseason," writes PFF's Trevor Sikkema. "Getting Robert Saleh back as defensive coordinator could be a big positive, as he had success in that position with this very regime. But outside of that, the team lost Dre Greenlaw, Deebo Samuel and Talanoa Hufanga and didn’t meaningfully address their offensive line.

"San Francisco's draft was heavily focused on improving in run defense, which was needed after they finished 2025 with a 54.6 team PFF grade in that facet. The 49ers' floor might be higher, but their ceiling seems lower."

I completely agree. The 49ers did get worse. They'd probably say that if Christian McCaffrey stays healthy, they'll be better than last season. But counting on a 29-year-old McCaffrey to stay healthy seems like a risky proposition.

In addition, quarterback Brock Purdy got hurt twice last season and the 49ers did nothing to make the offensive line better. That almost makes you wonder if they really want to extend his contract. You'd think they'd want to protect the biggest investment in franchise history.

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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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