The team has a few options
It was general manager John Lynch’s turn to speak with the media Friday afternoon. The San Francisco 49ers‘ GM answered questions and touched on multiple topics, including what the plan is for replacing assistant general manager Adam Peters, who is in Washington now.
Lynch said, “We’ve got the plan in place. I want to give the due to these guys playing in this game. We’ve got a really good plan. I can tell you this: It’s going to come internally. Not to say that, later on, there might not be an add. We’re always looking, but we’ve got great candidates. I think we do a great job, and it started before I got here.”
Tariq Ahmad is the Director of College Scouting for the 49ers. RJ Gillen is the Director of Pro Personnel. Those two potential in-house replacements for Peters would make the most sense.
Here’s Lynch speaking about the potential candidates: “I think we have such great scouts because our scouting assistant program is so good, led by Ethan Waugh when I first got here. Adam took great pride in the development. We all take pride. Tariq Ahmad, very instrumental in that.”
If we’re reading between the lines, Waugh and Ahmad were the first names to come out of Lynch’s mouth.
Lynch continued, where he spoke more about the internal pipeline the 49ers are developing in the front office:
“We really do a nice job of training these guys such that there’s a pipeline always. And I think it’s only right that when you have capable people, you stay within because that speaks to what we preach, that, ‘Hey if you work your tail off and produce good work, there’s going to be opportunities.’”
It’s not just the Kyle Shanahan coaching tree that’s spreading around the NFL. The 49ers front office is spreading around the league just as quickly. Peters joined Martin Mayhew, Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, and Ran Carthon as former front-office members of the 49ers who are now general managers.
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