Niners Nation
Your daily San Francisco 49ers news for Saturday, November 16th, 2024
49ers head into Seahawks game worried about Nick Bosa, George Kittle and Trent Williams (paywall)
“Kittle is likely to play after he was limited in the final two practices of the week, and head coach Kyle Shanahan suggested Bosa will play after he returned to practice on a limited basis Friday. However, Williams didn’t practice during the week and Shanahan indicated the 49ers might need to wait until Sunday morning to see if he can play.”
Why the 49ers were determined to land Evan Anderson: ‘Kept reminding me of D.J.’ (paywall)
“It was one of the most intense recruitment processes of an undrafted free agent I’ve ever been a part of,” Kocurek, the 49ers’ defensive line coach, said this week. “Because we really wanted him bad, and we had a lot of competition. And there was a lot of back and forth. And at one point it looked like we were gonna lose him.”
The 49ers, however, never let him off the line. Kocurek and two members of the scouting department worked the phones in the draft room, negotiating with the agent and urging Anderson to come to San Francisco. They increased their contract guarantee to $280,000, more than double what their top free-agent target got last year. And when the trio finally showed up at the party nearly two hours later, it had good news: It had landed its big fish......Anderson dropped more than 40 pounds before his sophomore season alone, and as the weight came off, his natural athleticism emerged. After all, this was someone who can dunk a basketball, who executed an impressive front flip into a backyard pool when his deal with the 49ers was completed and who played lacrosse in high school. Talk about imposing — he was a 350-pound long-pole defenseman who once checked an opponent so hard that the kid ended up with a fractured skull....Herman coached at Houston and Texas before FAU, and before the draft, he told NFL scouts that Anderson was as good as any of the players he’d seen at those schools.
“I’ve coached some pretty good nose guards in Poona Ford, Ed Oliver,” he said. “And I told them, ‘The twitch. If Ed Oliver’s twitch is a 10 out of 10, (Anderson’s) is about a nine. It’s pretty damn good. But he’s just so much bigger than those two guys.”
Kyle Shanahan shares final updates ahead of 49ers-Seahawks Week 11 matchup
‘San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan spoke with reporters after Friday’s practice as the team prepares for its Week 11 matchup against the Seattle Seahawks. Here’s everything he said.”
“I’ll be surprised if the 49ers blow out the Seahawks, who are coming off a bye and probably will have DK Metcalf back this week. It’ll probably be another close game. The 49ers will probably have a special teams mistake. And I’m...
