The competition for the San Francisco 49ers’ starting QB job is wide open heading into training camp, but Alex Smith might have the inside track on making the job his once and for all, Matt Severance says.
New writer Jake Keyes gives his take on the 2008 San Francisco 49ers and the crucial season that looms ahead for the team and for head coach Mike Nolan.
We‘re only a week removed from the 2008 NFL Draft, and the 2008 college football season is still a little less than four months away, but it‘s never too early to get a start on 2009 draft coverage - starting with my first 2009 mock draft.
With the exception of the 49ers, the teams picking 25-32 are already playoff contenders with, for the most part, few major needs.
The NFC West, at least in its current incarnation, has never produced a Super Bowl champion, and the last team in the division to win the Big Game was the St. Louis Rams in 2000. Needless to say, the division has been fighting for respectability for nearly a decade.
It‘s time to adjust those mocks yet again, folks, as a couple of free-agent receivers‘ new destinations could affect where a couple of highly-coveted pass-catching prospects will land.
At the start of the 2007 NFL season, it was clear that the NFC was the weaker of the 2 divisions.
Well, it seemed clear then.
The New England Patriots had justed added a slew of free agents to their already talent-laden line-up, the Indianapolis Colts had just come off QB Peyton Manning‘s first championship season and […]