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Just was a watching a few videos of Jared Abbrederis, WR of Nebraska

I liked what I seen... Dude can run routes(double move :x :x :x ), catch the ball with his HANDS and can block as well

You can pretty much line him up wherever...

Maybe if they dont feel the need to go WR early, we can scoop him up in the mid-rounds and still come out with a good WR

 

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http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap20...anquan-boldin-49ers-in-talks-for-new-contract


Report: Anquan Boldin, 49ers in talks for new contract

Dan Hanzus

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Anquan Boldin and the San Francisco 49ersproved to be a perfect match last season. Don't expect the partnership to end.

NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport said Wednesday on NFL Network that the 49erswant the soon-to-be free-agent wide receiver back after a productive 2013. The feeling is mutual, according to a source with knowledge of the team's plans.

In his appearance on "NFL Total Access," Rapoport believed that a deal would get done.

According to a Friday report by CSN Bay Area, Boldin's camp and the 49ers' front office currently are in talks for a multi-year contract extension before March 8, the date when free agents can begin negotiating with other teams.

Boldin was a steal for Niners general manager Trent Baalke, who gave up a sixth-round draft pick to acquire the veteran playmaker from theBaltimore Ravens last March. Boldin immediately emerged as a favorite target of quarterback Colin Kaepernick, piling up 13 catches for 208 yards and a touchdown in aseason-opening win over the Green Bay Packers.

He finished the season with 85 receptions for 1,179 yards and seven scores. Boldin was an impact player throughout the postseason as well, leading the Niners in receiving over three playoff contests.

Though he'll turn 34 in October, Boldin is a durable presence whose game isn't predicated on speed to get separation. It's no coincidence that both the Arizona Cardinals and Ravensstruggled to fill the void after he left town.

Barring an unforeseen bidder, expect Boldin to be lining up opposite Michael Crabtree come September.

On the latest edition of the "Around The League Podcast," the guys huddle with Seahawks trioMichael Robinson, Brandon Mebane and Red Bryant before unpacking Cleveland's week of chaos

 

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Random note-- You guys know Crabby has only fumbled once in his regular season career, and once in the Playoffs (Pretty sure it was when he got stripped on 1 vs the Falcons a few years back)

Very incredible stat

 

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crazy stat. crabby with them dependable hands.

2 more days until combine

 

 

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Drove by candlestick today. Place really is a dump sucks they couldn't keep it in the neighborhood though.

 

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[COLOR=#RED]Teams primed for a good offseason[/COLOR]
February, 18, 2014
By Mike Sando | ESPN.com

1. San Francisco 49ers

The 49ers have one of the most talented rosters in the NFL, even though nine of their league-high 16 Pro Bowl players are either specialists, players headed toward free agency, potential cap casualties or coming off injury. Most of the team's best players remain under contract for at least another season. Re-signing receiver Anquan Boldin is realistic but not essential now that Michael Crabtree is healthy. Keeping strong safety Donte Whitner might be tougher from a cost standpoint.

Effective cap management and the continual stockpiling of draft choices will allow the 49ers to maintain their core while filling holes with low-cost replacements. They took that route last offseason when they used early choices to replace Dashon Goldson and Delanie Walker after both struck lucrative deals elsewhere in free agency.

San Francisco owns a league-high 11 choices in the 2014 draft and will likely receive a 12th pick when the NFL hands out compensatory selections late next month. Having additional choices in the second and third rounds gives San Francisco flexibility. Last year, the team parlayed a similar situation into a quick move up the draft board for safety Eric Reid. I wouldn't be surprised to see San Francisco strike similarly for a cornerback this year.

The 49ers, much like the Seahawks, essentially redshirted their 2013 draft class. Both teams could get better this offseason simply by dusting off some of those players as replacements, including a pair of Niners in running back Marcus Lattimore and defensive lineman Cornellius Carradine who were out with injuries for the entirety of their rookie campaigns. San Francisco is also positioned to get both quality and quantity from the 2014 draft. That's a luxury for a team coming off three consecutive NFC Championship Games. Six other teams hold more than the standard seven selections in the 2014 draft. None of the six was a playoff team last season.

[COLOR=#RED]The Niners' Kaepernick dilemma[/COLOR]
February, 11, 2014
By Mike Sando | ESPN.com

Colin Kaepernick is 21-8 in his career as a starter for the San Francisco 49ers.
Colin Kaepernick has a 21-8 record with four playoff victories and one Super Bowl appearance since becoming the San Francisco 49ers' starting quarterback during the 2012 season. Not everyone loves everything about his game, but it's tough finding quarterbacks with higher early trajectories.

To see just how tough it is, consider how Kaepernick's 29-start credentials stack up against those for all other QBs who made their first 29 starts over the past nine seasons. Kaepernick stands first in Total QBR, second in winning percentage and fourth in passer rating on a 25-man list featuring Russell Wilson, Aaron Rodgers, Tony Romo, Robert Griffin III, Jay Cutler, Cam Newton, Matt Ryan and Andrew Luck.

With three seasons behind him, Kaepernick recently became eligible for a new contract with one year remaining on his four-year rookie deal. Everything we've learned about the importance of quarterbacks tells us the 49ers should seize the opportunity to extend Kaepernick's contract before the price climbs even higher. Otherwise, they risk the sort of trouble Baltimore ran into when Joe Flacco leveraged a contract-year Super Bowl run into a $120 million deal that will hamstring the organization for years and force the Ravens back to the bargaining table seeking relief. The 49ers could find themselves in a similar situation if Kaepernick leads them to a championship in his contract year next season -- no stretch for a player with memorable postseason performances on his résumé already.

So, yes, the bottom line is that, at the right price, the Niners would be wise to lock up Kaepernick this offseason. But after speaking Monday with three player agents, one NFL contract negotiator and a former general manager, I came away questioning conventional wisdom. Do the 49ers really need to pony up for their quarterback this offseason?

"I wonder if the landscape for quarterbacks in the NFL has forever changed with what Russell Wilson just did and what happened with Flacco," the agent for one of the NFL's more accomplished quarterbacks said. "Are you better off having young, inexpensive quarterbacks and trying to win with these guys?"

Not everyone would be better off, but there's a line of thinking in the NFL that 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh and Seahawks counterpart Pete Carroll have raised the coaching bar, and that Harbaugh in particular has proved his team can win with more than one type of quarterback. Look, if you can throw 55 touchdown passes the way Peyton Manning did this past season, go for it. But the teams paying $20 million a year for quarterbacks are cutting corners elsewhere. Six of the 10 highest-seeded teams in the recently concluded playoffs featured QBs playing on relatively affordable rookie deals. A seventh, Kansas City, advanced with starter Alex Smith earning less than $10 million a year.

Why would the 49ers want to join the ranks of teams paying a premium for quarterbacks if they can win with cheaper ones? Sure, Kaepernick has a 21-8 record in his past 29 starts, but his predecessor, Smith, has gone 20-8-1 in his past 29, including 10-2-1 with the 49ers. Smith has 49 total touchdowns with 12 interceptions in those 29 starts, compared with 48 and 16 for Kaepernick. Smith has a slightly higher passer rating, and Kaepernick comes out quite a bit higher in Total QBR thanks to his dynamic rushing ability. It'll be interesting to see what type of deal Smith gets this offseason; it won't be for $20 million a year.
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Richard Sherman denied Kaepernick and the 49ers a shot at a second straight Super Bowl appearance.


If you're the 49ers, why not use one of your 11 choices in the 2014 draft on a quarterback? With additional picks in the second and third rounds, plus a likely compensatory selection for parting with safety Dashon Goldson, San Francisco certainly could stash away another young QB prospect. If Kaepernick lights up the league under his current deal, that's a good problem to have. Slap the franchise tag on him and see how he does in 2015, all while working toward a long-term deal. If Kaepernick plateaus, regresses or simply wants too much money, the team would have another low-cost option behind him and a coaching staff that has proved it can adapt as needed. Meanwhile, the 49ers would retain the financial flexibility to supplement their roster with an Anquan Boldin type as needed.

The contract negotiator and the former GM said they weren't sold on Kaepernick as irreplaceable in San Francisco. They also said they didn't think the 49ers were necessarily all-in on him, based on what they've heard and what they would be thinking if they were in the 49ers' position. This line of thinking says Kaepernick is a phenomenal athlete but not yet polished enough as a quarterback. The negotiator said that Kaepernick is too quick to rely on his athleticism and that, when his first options aren't there, Kaepernick too frequently tries to make a play at all costs. For the 49ers, those costs included three fourth-quarter turnovers in the NFC Championship Game while Wilson avoided late mistakes and averaged an additional 2.2 yards per pass attempt targeting less accomplished receivers.

Fatal flaws? Not necessarily. We could be picking nits in a dynamic young player's game. "Kaepernick was a little inconsistent in the first half of the season," one of the agents said. "I've always believed you're not a starting QB until you have a full offseason and everyone can game plan against you. He was that, and he struggled for a bit. Some of his guys were hurt. But he worked through it. He is sitting in a great spot."

Indeed, Kaepernick came within a spectacular Richard Sherman deflection of leading the 49ers to a second consecutive Super Bowl appearance. And, after watching Seattle destroy Denver to win its first championship, it wasn't hard to envision another rugged NFC West team such as the 49ers beating the Broncos.

The price of poker

Let's say the 49ers want to get a deal done with Kaepernick this offseason. The question is at what price? The sources consulted for this column provided a general framework. They said Kaepernick should think as though he's staring at $20 million over the next two seasons. That figure counts his roughly $1 million salary in 2014 and the projected $19 million cost for the franchise tag a year later. The 49ers would be enticing Kaepernick into taking about $15 million a year by front-loading the deal enough to dwarf the $20 million he might otherwise expect to receive through 2015.

That type of deal would give Kaepernick, 26, the financial security all young players covet, plus a chance to reach free agency again by age 30, when he's still in his prime years. The 49ers would come away with a franchise quarterback under contract for less than the market rate, which ranges from $18 million (Cutler) to $22 million (Rodgers).

"If you get to the $15 million range, you know you are taking care of him and you can make a big deal in the press saying Kaepernick could have held out for more, but, like Tom Brady, he wants to help his team," one of the agents said. "Instead of $20 million over the next two years, he gets $35 million guaranteed. Call it four years and $50 million, with $38 million in the next 12 months if they can eat up that kind of cap space early."

The former GM said he'd do a three-year deal for $40 million, with $30 million guaranteed. But he said he suspected a young and talented player such as Kaepernick would rather bet big on himself in 2014 than settle for a compromise deal. "He completes that pass against Seattle, they steamroll Denver and he is the MVP of the Super Bowl and they're talking Flacco money right now," he said. "If I'm him, that is what I'm thinking."

Of course, Flacco knew the Ravens could not realistically afford to use the franchise tag on him. The 49ers could use the tag on Kaepernick, although not without discomfort. "If I were his agent, I'd say he is only going to get more expensive as we go on," one of the agents said. "The fly in the ointment is that he had three turnovers in the fourth quarter of the last game he played. I'd speculate that nothing will get done this offseason."

The contract negotiator said he thought Kaepernick would have no reason to walk away from a two-year extension worth $45 million over the next three years, counting 2014. He thought the 49ers would be amenable to such a deal unless they thought they could win without paying big money for a quarterback. The negotiator noted that San Francisco has already reached extensions with most of its top players. Aldon Smith, Donte Whitner, Michael Crabtree and Mike Iupati could be in line for deals, but the 49ers can afford to be selective in some of those cases.

One of the agents said he thought 49ers president Paraag Marathe would slow-play negotiations in the short term. "The more I'm thinking about it, I think Paraag will try to get him at $15 million, dangle it all offseason, and Colin Kaepernick will get into the offseason drills and think, 'Should I play for $1 million now and kill it in 2014, or take the $14 million to $15 million a year as long as it's front-loaded?' That is the give and take."

What makes sense

Some NFL teams pay more for the position than for the specific QB. I thought that was the case with Cutler and the Bears, to some extent. Some teams pay for past production (see the New York Jets and Brett Favre a few years back), and others pay for potential. The Arizona Cardinals and Kevin Kolb come to mind, along with every team that used an early draft choice on a quarterback under the old labor agreement.

Paying big for any one of those traits in the absence of the others carries heightened risk. The 49ers are in position to pay for all three. Kaepernick plays the NFL's most important position and has produced at a high level, including in the playoffs. He has the potential to improve with seasoning.

The opportunity is right for the 49ers to secure their quarterback at a rate that only figures to increase. They certainly should draft a QB, regardless, because it always makes sense to invest in the position. But if they can sign Kaepernick to the type of deal outlined above -- say, three years and $45 million -- everyone can come out a winner while minimizing risks.

via ESPN

[COLOR=#RED]What it will take to trade up for WR?[/COLOR]
February, 14, 2014
By Bill Williamson | ESPN.com

Whether the San Francisco 49ers trade up in the draft to take a receiver will be a topic leading up to the May 8-10 draft.

The 49ers are expected to have 12 draft picks and may have six in the first three rounds depending on their compensatory pick, which is expected to be dispersed in March. Receiver is the 49ers' top need. Considering the 49ers moved up from No. 31 to No. 18 to take safety Eric Reid last year and the fact that Reid made the Pro Bowl as a rookie, the 49ers may be more than willing to make a big trade up. The 49ers gave Dallas the No. 31 and No. 74 pick (third round) to take Reid at No. 18.

The question is, how high will San Francisco have to move up from No. 30 to grab a receiver?

The top three receivers are considered to be Clemson's' Sammy Watkins, Texas A&M's Mike Evans and USC's Marqise Lee. In Mel Kiper's latest mock draft, he has Watkins going fifth, Evans going 13th and Lee going 18th. In Todd McShay's latest mock draft, the top receivers are more clustered. McShay has Watkins ninth, Evans 10th and Lee 13th

Let's say the 49ers target Evans, who would be a great fit for them. They will likely get up to 10-12 range to get a chance for him. If he is available at 12 and the New York Giants are willing to trade down, the 49ers could potentially be interested.

What would it cost to go from No. 30 to No. 12? It would be less than what it cost Atlanta to go from No. 27 to No. 6 to take receiver Julio Jones in a deal with Cleveland. This is what the Falcons sent the Browns' first, second and fourth-round picks in 2011 and their first- and fourth-round picks in 2012.

The 49ers could potentially offer No. 30, No. 56 (second-round pick acquired in Alex Smith trade with Kansas City) and No. 77 (a third-round pick acquired from Tennessee in a 2013 draft-day trade) to the Giants to take Evans at No. 12. It is a good fit according to the NFL draft value chart used as a guideline by most NFL teams. The chart values the No. 12 pick at 1,200 points. The No. 30, No. 56 and No. 77 picks' combined value is at 1,165.

If the 49ers made that trade, they'd have the No. 12, No. 61 and No. 94 picks in the third rounds with the potential of the extra comp pick.

Getting an impact player like Evans and still having premium picks would be a pretty nice situation for the 49ers. Again, the trade process is just starting, but it is not impossible to think the 49ers can use their pick surplus and address their top need for the second draft in a row.

via NinersNation

[COLOR=#RED]49ers, Bruce Miller have had preliminary contract extension talks, per ESPN[/COLOR]
By David Fucillo @NinersNation on Feb 18 2014


ESPN is reporting the 49ers have had some preliminary contract extension talks with fullback Bruce Miller. We break down the news.

The 2014 offseason is still in its early stages, but the 49ers appear to be trying to get some work done. A few days after Matt Maiocco reported the 49ers and Anquan Boldin have begun contract talks, we have word of more negotiations. According to ESPN's Bill Williamson, the 49ers have "had preliminary talks of an extension with [Bruce] Miller" and "there is mutual interest."

Williamson said it was merely preliminary, and a deal was not imminent, but it is still not surprising that the team would be working on this. While Miller's deal is not a simple one to figure out, it would likely be one of the more reasonable deals. While we want to see things like a Kap deal and a Boldin deal, it makes sense to get smaller deals done as well to set up the kind of space the team will have for these other deals.

I suggest it is not a simple one because of the nature of fullbacks in the NFL. The position is going the way of the Dodo for many teams, but the 49ers continue to utilize the fullback quite extensively. Furthermore, in 2013 we saw Miller become the de facto replacement for Delanie Walker. While Walker was listed as a tight end, he played in a joker role, moving around from tight end to fullback to wide receiver to H-back. Miller did not have quite as an extensive repertoire in 2013, but he took over a lot of the things Walker did.

This won't make for an overly expensive deal, but I do wonder what kind of extension we might see. Miller will earn a base salary of $1.389 milion thanks to his proven performance escalator. It makes him the sixth highest paid fullback. Vonta Leach is next on the list at $1.75 million, and Marcel Reece is at the top at $2.95 million. I don't think the 49ers suddenly make Miller the top paid fullback, but it will be interesting to see how a sort of "dying" positional market impacts Miller contract talks.

Sorry for the video quality, i tried to embed the HQ version from ESPN but I couldnt figure out how to do it.

Also, let me know if you guys would like me to put these in a spoiler because I know the different articles end up accumulating to a very large post.

 

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Good stuff Drizzy.

Nice to hear about Bruce Miller getting an extension soon. Dude is one of the better players on this team that goes under the radar. Sad to see what's become of my beloved fullback position in this current day of NFL football.

 

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Good stuff Drizzy.


Nice to hear about Bruce Miller getting an extension soon. Dude is one of the better players on this team that goes under the radar. Sad to see what's become of my beloved fullback position in this current day of NFL football.

Agreed. Tukuafu filled in very nicely, but Bruce Miller is a very talented Fullback in multiple aspects of the game, ours especially. It seems like Kap really trusts him in the passing game with those checkdowns (Miller has some good hands because I've seen Kap laser it to him on many occasions) and his run blocking is great. I'm glad we are looking to resign him.


Side note-- if we don't end up resigning Boobie, I'd love to have Costanzo back..guy was a monster on Special Teams. Dixon is as well but we have like 4 running backs.


Another side note, let's say we do end up cutting Dixon, what do you guys think of Kadeem Carey from Arizona? Kendall Hunters contract is about to expire, Gore is getting older, I personally like LMJ but he is not much of a RB and who knows what Lattimore will be able to bring next year. Although I do like watching and following college football, I dont have the knowledge that some of you on here do. Do you think Carey would be a potential pick, and whether he is or not, where do you guys see him going in the draft?

 

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[h1]Boldin, Niners haven’t started talking yet[/h1]
Posted by Mike Florio on February 18, 2014, 8:33 PM EST

AP
A report recently emerged that the 49ers and receiver Anquan Boldin  have commenced negotiations  on a new contract.  And while we’re reluctant to contradict one of our CSN colleagues, a source with knowledge of the situation tells PFT that no talks have happened yet between the team and the wideout who arrived last year from Baltimore for a low-round pick and a $6 million salary.

Per the source, communications are expected to commence at the Scouting Combine, where every team and every agent will be in Indianapolis at the same time, and where plenty of contract talks will occur.

The 49ers intend to prioritize Boldin, quarterback Colin Kaepernick, and coach Jim Harbaugh for new deals this year.  Boldin necessarily is the top priority, because he’s due to hit the open market.

Also due to hit the open market is the guy who recently was on the verge of changing his name to Hitner.  Veteran safety Donte Whitner  becomes a free agent in three weeks, a year after the 49ers allowed Dashon Goldson  to sign with the Buccaneers.

 

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@49ersaaron8

check out the updated mock draft for the first 2 rounds by walterfootball.com for us.  lol this would be crazy i would !@#$ my pants if this came true.

1.) jason verrett CB

2a.) austin seferian jenkins TE

2b.) jarvis landry WR

 

[49ersaaron8]

Hahahah exactly what I want. I like Verrett but his tape isn't as nice as fuller from VTech.

Seferian-Jenkins will be used similar to a Jimmy Graham Rob Gronk Gobble up Redzone targets.

 

[49ersaaron8]

And the more I see of Bashaun Breeland the more I like.

 

[MON5T3R]

Do you guys think if we take Verrett we take a bigger corner like Jean-Baptiste, Desir or McGill in the 3rd or 4th if still available?

 

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Hahahah exactly what I want. I like Verrett but his tape isn't as nice as fuller from VTech.

Seferian-Jenkins will be used similar to a Jimmy Graham Rob Gronk Gobble up Redzone targets.

yeah i dont know about the verrett pick but im loving the next 2. you guys want a big body THIS is the guy who would fit us best especially with all the touble tight end formations we run. excellent hands, excellent routes and BIG body. would be a luxury BPA pick tho.

sorry vance.

 

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I'm curious as to if they would really draft another TE after getting Vance last year... When I get home I wanna watch tape on this TE you guys are talking about

 

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 Yeah I dont know if they would either but I wouldn't be upset with the pick. They could still line up 2 in-line tight ends and still be able to flex Vernon out wide.

 

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Vance has left alot to be desired and I hope they do go BPA and he is still around. The kid is a stud.

 

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Should have just picked Zach Ertz last year instead of moving back to take Tank Carradine!

 

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Carradine is a good pick. TE wasn't a pressing need but the DLine health/depth during the SB run was apparent.

 

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Ertz shouldnt be menrioned in the sane breath as Seferian-Jenkins. He is that talented.

 

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Report: 49ers restructure Jon Baldwin's contract

49ers wide receiver Jon Baldwin has reportedly taken a salary cut for 2014.

According to Field Yates of ESPN.com, Baldwin's base salary has been reduced from $1.4 million to $645,000.

Baldwin can make up the difference in incentives, Yates reported, but the wide receiver would have to play at least 80 percent of snaps, catch at least 65 catches and rack up more 800 yards receiving to reach $1.4 million in compensation.

The 24-year-old Baldwin appeared in seven regular-season games for the 49ers in 2013, catching three passes for 28 yards. The 49ers acquired him from Kansas City in August.

Baldwin is in the final year of his contract. He was the Chiefs' No. 1 pick in 2011.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/02/20/report-49ers-restructure-jon-baldwins-contract/
Read more at http://www.49erswebzone.com/forum/n...is-last-game-9ers/page21/#2pkr1oU7muxKEzbJ.99

 

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Report: 49ers moving Eric Mangini to tight ends coach

Posted by Mike Wilkening on February 20, 2014, 10:52 AM EST

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Eric Mangini will reportedly have a new role on the 49ers’ coaching staff.

Mangini, who was a senior offensive consultant with San Francisco in 2013, will coach the club’s tight ends in 2014, Matt Barrows of the Sacramento Bee reported Thursday.

Reggie Dunn, who coached the 49ers’ tight ends the last three seasons, will fill the club’s vacancy at assistant offensive line coach, the Bee reported.

Mangini is in his second season with the 49ers. He was the Jets’ head coach from 2006 through 2008 and the Browns’ head coach from 2009 through 2010.

 

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Not really sure the reason we restructured Baldwin and didnt just cut him outright.  Other than route running, catching the ball or blocking, he is a hell of a receiver.

 

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Not really sure the reason we restructured Baldwin and didnt just cut him outright.  Other than route running, catching the ball or blocking, he is a hell of a receiver.

 

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Not really sure the reason we restructured Baldwin and didnt just cut him outright.  Other than route running, catching the ball or blocking, he is a hell of a receiver.

Contract is not guaranteed so Niners have an out. There is talent there, niners probably want to see him compete with a full off season and training camp under his belt.