49ers articles
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Everything we know about where the 49ers-Brandon Aiyuk drama stands
The drama surrounding the San Francisco 49ers and star receiver Brandon Aiyuk is reaching a fever pitch ahead of Thursday’s NFL Draft. Several reports from members of the NFL media dropped Tuesday, all casting serious doubt over the situation between the receiver and team as they work through a clearly contentious contract negotiation. 49ers general manager John Lynch held a pre-draft press conference Monday where he made it clear that the team’s wish is to have Aiyuk around “for the rest of his...
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Malachi Corley welcomes opportunity to play with 49ers WRs
Malachi Corley has been likened to versatile San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel. What does Corley, the former Western Kentucky wide receiver, think about the prospect of joining Samuel and the rest of the 49ers' receiving corps? It's a possibility. Corley is expected to be drafted in the second or third round this week and recently visited the team in Santa Clara. Could it be the 49ers calling his name? "Put me out there with Deebo," Corley recently told Kay Adams on the "Up and...
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The 49ers are poised to break this decades-long draft streak
For the past 20 years, the San Francisco 49ers have had an inexplicable aversion to selecting a true cornerback in the first two rounds of the NFL Draft. But as experts finalize their mock drafts with less than two weeks to go until this year’s draft in Chicago, it looks like that streak could finally end. This particular drought most recently resurfaced earlier this month, when Sam Hoppen of Fantasy Pros posted a graphic on social media that showed the last year each team in the NFL drafted a...