Your daily San Francisco 49ers news for Friday, May 17th, 2024
49ers’ schedule ranks among NFL’s worst rest differentials since 2002
“That marks two consecutive seasons where San Francisco got stuck with the worst rest differential in the league, with the 49ers 2023 total also ranking in the top-10 worst differentials over the last two decades.
The most glaring hurdles for San Francisco’s scheduling woes will be the four games it plays against opponents who are coming off a bye week, which is a difficult task in itself but magnified even further by the quality of the teams the 49ers will face in those contests.
San Francisco will face the Kansas City Chiefs and Dallas Cowboys in Week’s seven and eight, with each coming off a bye week prior to their meeting with the 49ers. Then in Week 11, San Francisco faces its NFC-West rival Seattle Seahawks off a bye week, with a Week 13 showdown against the Buffalo Bills wrapping up the 49ers slate of games against teams who will have multiple weeks of rest before their meeting.
The 49ers are the only team in the league who will play at least four games against opponents who care coming off a bye during the 2024 season, with the Indianapolis Colts being the only other franchise who has at least three such games on their schedule.”
“It’s a long, long, slow process,” Greenlaw said in front of the audience at the California Theatre in San Jose. “I’m feeling really, really good, though. I’m happy to be able to walk on the stage, actually. It’s been about three months now since the injury. I just recently got out of the boot, and just, slowly, every day, just rehabbing, getting the strength, getting the mobility in it.”
49ers’ evaluator breaks down draft class and how enigmatic RB became target (paywall)
“[Tariq] Ahmad credited Ryan Kessenich, an area scout from Wisconsin, where Guerendo played his first four seasons, for doing exhaustive work that turned Guerendo from an enigma into a target: The 49ers traded two fifth-round picks for the fourth-rounder they used to grab Guerendo.
Kessenich detailed, in what Ahmad termed a “dissertation,” Guerendo’s various roadblocks to playing time. He transitioned from wide receiver to running back as a freshman. And he had hamstring and foot injuries throughout his first three seasons. And he played behind three running backs who were NFL draft picks. And he dealt with the death of his position coach at Wisconsin, Gary Brown.
After speaking with at least four sources, Kessenich entered his reams of information into the 49ers’ draft database. As a result, there was a surprising amount of conviction about a prospect who, on the surface, appeared controversial.
“This was above and beyond,” Ahmad said. “When we had those questions that got brought up in the draft meetings, everything was laid out because of the work that Ryan did. Doing what scouts do. Gathering as much accurate information as possible.”
Steve Young on keeping the 49ers competitive after paying Brock Purdy
“When you have to pay the quarterback, things change,” Young told Tom Tolbert and Matt Kolsky. “This is a fact. And you’re going to have to find first, second, third-year guys on rookie contracts that can be—you’re wearing their jersey. By the end of the season, you’re wearing that rookie’s jersey because of how impactful they have been.
“And that’s what’s happened to us to allow this. Who had a Brock Purdy jersey two years ago? A lot of Brock Purdy jerseys today.”
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“That’s when you really get in a jam and that’s when the jersey you’re going to be wearing in a couple of years is probably not somebody that’s on the team right now,” Young continued. “And that’s how you stay competitive. That’s how you do it. You have to transition all the expensive superstars. At some point, two or three have to go to make room for rookie contracts, to make room for your quarterback, and that’s just a fact.”
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Young concludes, “The people that wear Deebo jerseys today, I need them wearing someone else’s jersey if he’s gonna go. Who is that going to be?”
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