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The Washington Commanders Hire 49ers Assistant GM Adam Peters

It seems clear that Peters wants to run his own team, and he won't get that opportunity with the 49ers for a very long time, if ever.
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The Washington Commanders Hire 49ers Assistant GM Adam Peters
The Washington Commanders Hire 49ers Assistant GM Adam Peters

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It's official.

The Washington Commanders have hired former 49ers assistant general manager Adam Peters to be their new general manager, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter. Peters has been with the 49ers since 2017 and played an integral role in building their elite roster.

The 49ers most likely wanted to keep Peters -- they recently promoted John Lynch to president of football operations, which vacated the general manager position. But even if the 49ers had given that job Peters, he still would be working under Lynch, who got a multi-year extension during the season.

It seems clear that Peters wants to run his own team, and he won't get that opportunity with the 49ers for a very long time, if ever. So he's joining Washington, which has been a horrendous franchise for decades.

But former owner Dan Snyder is out, and the new ownership is extremely wealthy and dynamic, and respected people in the NFL wanted to work for them. Peters is joining an incredibly promising clean slate where he can build the East Coast version of the 49ers. Now he just has to find a head coach.

Who knows, maybe Peters will hire former 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh. Washington certainly could pay him what he wants, and they have the No. 2 pick in the draft which Harbaugh could use to select the quarterback of his choice. He has coached in college football for the past nine years, so he might know exactly which college quarterback he wants.

It will be interesting to see how the 49ers do without Peters, considering Lynch has no formal personnel background, and Peters does.

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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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