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I focused mostly on Joe Staley’s retirement in today’s draft wrap. We’ll use up miles of bandwidth talking about Trent Williams over the next few weeks.
Right now, let’s get to some of the ancillary players the 49ers welcomed today. Here are portions of the official John Lynch / Kyle Shanahan transcript for this afternoon’s Zoom. Because the draft didn’t end after the third round.
Shanahan on the backup plan at offensive tackle:
“One thing that was really cool was if the Washington deal didn’t go through, one of our Plan Bs was to try to draft Colton [McKivitz] there in the fourth round, and then we made that risk to move that to go up and get the receiver we wanted. Then we did end up getting Trent and to still be able to get him [McKivitz] in the fifth round was a hell of a deal. We felt really excited about how today went.
Shanahan on whether prospect evaluation changed because of the uncertain summer:
“No, it doesn’t change it. I mean, you bring it up and you talk about it, but you can’t bank everything on the first five weeks of the year. So, it’s just kind of unfortunate. What was different there, at least, we could talk with the rookies and stuff. Once you drafted them, you could actually do things with those guys a little bit, but you couldn’t get them
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