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Three 49ers Selected to the Pro Bowl

Not everyone on the 49ers had a disappointing season.
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Three 49ers Selected to the Pro Bowl
Three 49ers Selected to the Pro Bowl

Not everyone on the 49ers had a disappointing season.

Three 49ers played well enough to make the Pro Bowl: middle linebacker Fred Warner, left tackle Trent Williams and fullback Kyle Juszczyk.

Warner, 24, will make his first Pro Bowl appearance. He arguably is the 49ers' best player and certainly is the MVP of a defense that currently ranks fifth in fewest yards allowed per game (314.3).

Warner also is the best middle linebacker in the game. He's a hard hitter between the tackles, he has range to run to the sideline, he's elite in coverage and top it off he's brilliant. Defensive coordinator Robert Saleh compares Warner to Peyton Manning in terms of Warner's ability to quarterback the defense, call the proper checks before the snap and get his teammates lined up correctly.

Williams, 32, has earned his eighth-career Pro Bowl selection. He has the respect of the NFL, as he's made the Pro Bowl eight of the past nine seasons (he didn't make it last season because he sat out the entire year). And his individual play this season certainly deserves recognition as well. But Williams still plays for one of the worst offensive lines in the NFL. It hasn't improved as a unit since he replaced Joe Staley.

Juszczyk, 29, has earned his fifth-consecutive Pro Bowl selection. Juszczyk is universally regarded as the best fullback in football, and the 49ers pay him $5.25 million per season. And yet, somehow, they let him touch the ball only two times per game. You explain that one.

Congratulations to these 49ers.

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Grant Cohn
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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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