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Will the 49ers Shock People with their 1st Pick in the NFL Draft?

These are 49ers we're talking about, and they like to keep us on our toes.
Grant Cohn|
Feb 11, 2023; Phoenix, AZ, USA; Brady Wright poses with San Francisco 49ers jersey at the NFL Draft exhibit at the Super Bowl LVII Experience at the Phoenix Convention Center. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images
Feb 11, 2023; Phoenix, AZ, USA; Brady Wright poses with San Francisco 49ers jersey at the NFL Draft exhibit at the Super Bowl LVII Experience at the Phoenix Convention Center. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images | Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

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Most people expect the 49ers to take an offensive lineman or a defensive lineman with their first-round pick this year. But these are 49ers we're talking about, and they like to keep us on our toes.

Let's review some 49ers history.

In 2019, they lost the Super Bowl with Jimmy Garoppolo as their quarterback.

In 2020, Garoppolo got injured, the 49ers went 3-3 with him on the field and his passer rating was 92.4.

Then in 2021, a month before the Draft, the 49ers traded up for the No. 3 pick and eventually took a quarterback.

Now, let's cut to the present.

In 2023, the 49ers lost the Super Bowl with Brock Purdy as their quarterback.

In 2024, Purdy got injured, the 49ers went 6-9 with him on the field and his passer rating was 96.1.

Does that mean the 49ers have the urge to take another quarterback?

When they traded up for Trey Lance, they didn't get rid of Garoppolo -- the 49ers kept both of them on the team for two seasons. They could do the same thing now if they were to trade up for a quarterback or draft one who falls to them.

According to reports, the 49ers aren't close to finalizing an extension with Purdy, who seems to want more than the 49ers are willing to pay him at this time. They could change their minds eventually and give Purdy everything he wants, or they could draft a quarterback such as Shedeur Sanders or Jaxson Dart next week and force Purdy to play out his rookie contract.

Given the 49ers history, I wouldn't rule anything out.

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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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