This will not be a season of NFL draft rumors, without the type of content NFL reporters Ian Rapoport and Peter King dropped on Sunday night.
According to reports from Rapport, the 49ers are still taking the quarterback with the third overall pick on Thursday night, but they have limited their options to Alabama’s Mack Jones and North Dakota State’s Trey Lance. The king has written “Football morning in americaNotebook for Pro Football Talk He is listening to “It’s a two-horse race” with Jones and Lance.
His sources are saying that the Niners finished Ohio State’s Justin Fields after watching him work 10 days ago, and saw him drip that he told him to walk, as he reportedly did Asked Lance. And they may have asked to set up the fields as per the choice of field coach Kyle Shanahara.
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Before anyone shouts that Shanahan and Niners GM John Lynch are foolish for it, consider how Roport wrote his tweet. It extends to as many qualifiers as the NBA Playoffs.
In form of # 49th As for his decision on which QB number 3 to take, sources say they are down to two prospects – and believe they are two # Bama QB Mac Jones and # NDSU QB Tray Lance. Many sources say that the focus has shifted to those two.
– Ian Rapport (@RapSheet) April 26, 2021
Jones was the first name on the web after being traded to the No. 3 with the Donsins, so perhaps the Niners were heading in that direction. But clauses such as “believe” and “focused attention” leave the possibility that it is not coming from inside the building.
The use of just “sources” rather than “team sources” or “sources of direct knowledge”, adds doubt about this being a first-hand leak. This information may have come from Niners and the team wants absolute fanciful denaturation. Maybe it came from other teams disinfecting or spreading bad information. Perhaps it came from agents who were doing the same.
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But there is another argument to come from within: King “dropped into the room” as it happened “to indicate that he looked at the 49ers’ draft board in 2017 when Lynch traded from second to third and the Bears draft. Moved for. Michelle Trubisky. San Francisco took Solomon Thomas, who was No. 2 on the team’s board. It’s a very big flex. Maybe the information pipeline is flowing from Santa Clara.
Or not. Only San Francisco owners are known for something. The media and the public are left to try to quell the rumors that were floated on Sunday night.
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