BREAKING: 49ers trade for BIG Keion White, ultra-athletic Patriots edge — FOR A BAG OF CHIPS!

BREAKING: 49ers trade for BIG Keion White, ultra-athletic Patriots edge — FOR A BAG OF CHIPS!

the promised move and just one of the promised moves at edge rusher here up on the roof in San Francisco. Emergency Live. The 49ers have traded with the New England Patriots for Keon White who is a big edge rusher. So, the first thing I think of when I see an edge rusher is 285 pounds. The guy can work on the inside as well. And apparently the New England Patriots never gave Keon White the really good chance to develop on the inside the way that he needed to. And you know the 49ers need help pass rushing from every single part of this defensive line. I’ll start with I don’t think they’re done. I think they’re going to continue scouring the market. said they entered today with only three edge rushers available on this roster like healthy and available because Sam Okawanu got hurt on Sunday and he is daytoday. So the the 49ers are in a position with where they need bodies on the outside, but I think they also need bodies on the inside. There haven’t been quite as many injuries on the inside, but they don’t have any plus pass rushers available there either. So, you get a guy that’s a little bit bigger than Charles Amenu. And I love the Charles Amenu trade uh comparison because they went and got him in 2021 for a very low cost. This for the 49ers is sending a sixthround pick from 2026 to the New England Patriots and they get a seventhround pick back along with Keon White. So, remember that we said that the 49ers are going to want a defensive lineman who is under contract past 2025. That’s exactly what they get with Keon White, who went to Old Dominion, then he transferred to Georgia Tech. He was a second round draft pick of the New England Patriots in 2023. That means he still has a year left on his rookie contract. I can tell you guys the details here for Keon White and the contract. The base salary this year is 1.45. 458 million. We’re about halfway through the season. So the 49ers will owe only a little bit more than half of that. So we’ll say about 800 to $900,000 for Keon White this season. So obviously from a cap perspective, it makes sense. But then he’s under contract in 2026, which is the big flexibility that the 49ers need it because they’re trying to build this for the long term in the three-year window. 1.8 million there. So low cost. You know, people are going to complain, oh, the guy doesn’t have any sacks this year. Well, he had five last year, so he obviously has some juice. He’s 6’5, 285, almost two 290, I think, when he weighed in at the NFL combine. Uh, obviously, he’s got a lot of athletic ability. I’m going to show you the relative athletic score in just a second. But for a sixth, seventh pick swap, that is essentially I mean that that’s not a loss of anything in terms of draft capital. The 49ers, we all know, I’ve been banging on the table for a long time. They’ve needed to do something because they’re just out of edge rushers. They didn’t get any pressure on Sunday. So, this is the first part of something. Can the 49ers do more? I absolutely think so. I absolutely think that they probably still do need to do more. But the relative athletic score as sent to me by Mike is super super impressive for Keon White. He sends these on WhatsApp. I don’t know if you guys can see this. I got my laptop up here on the roof. You probably can’t. You You see a lot of green there, right? Green is good in the relative athletic score. I mean, this what an epic San Francisco moment here. You could see quite tower downtown. That might be inverted. It might be mirrored, but uh it and then you could see a laptop, you know, Apple Certino Bay Area company. Anyway, relative athletic score, the the he’s 6’5, 285, 290. Put up 30 reps on the bench, so he’s strong. The 40 is at 479. The 10 yard splits at 169. Those are all really, really good numbers for a defensive lineman. He was listed as a defensive tackle coming out of Georgia Tech. So, for defensive tackles, those are elite numbers, and that’s what the relative athletic score is uh is set up against. the vertical jump 34 inches, a broad jump 9 feet nine inches. Those are also elite numbers for defensive tackles. So, I see a guy that the 49ers are going to try to use like Charles Amenu. They’re going to try to rush him from the inside. They could work him against guards because he’s athletic enough and then he’s big enough to plug the run when he’s in there, but I think big enough to set the edge on the outside. the athletic score is good enough to work against guards and have an advantage on the interior and give the 49ers some juice in that way. The the Amenu comparison is the one that I’m all about. Look, we even have a comparison between Keon White and Charles Amenu. I’m going to do a whole video on this. That’s an upload so I can show you guys these metrics a little bit better. I don’t know if you’re going to be able to see that. That’s Amenu and Keon White side by side. You can see that the green and the red almost mirror images of each other. And Amenu worked out really, really well for the 49ers back in 2021. Same kind of cost, right? I think it was a sixth round pick sent to the Houston Texans over to the AFC for a player who still had two years left under contract. Same kind of deal here with Keon White, the 49ers new pass rusher. If you guys go to my roster online, I’m going to go to the roster right now and I’m going to go ahead and add Keon White to it. I know that this is probably going to be too hard to show up on the screen since we’re doing an emergency live on a beautiful day in San Francisco from the rooftop. By the way, while while we’re here, there you San Francisco as we celebrate some trade news to to be able to cover. You can see the San Franc I think it’s the San Francisco Culinary Institute. Pardon me if I got the name kind of wrong, but that tower down on the very bottom of the the frame. Obviously, quite tower, Transame pyramid, cable cars going up and down Hide Street. I mean, later on we can go check out the Golden Gate Bridge and all that good stuff, but you could see Alcatraz for now. And you know, we got to talk about the trade. I just wanted to give you the beautiful day here in the most beautiful city of the United States. One of the most beautiful in the world, San Francisco. I think it’s unquestionable when you saw that view. The 49ers roster did just get a little bit better though, so we got to focus on that. So Keon White, I’m looking at my 90man roster right now. Obviously, he’s going to be on the the 53 man for San Francisco today. They worked out four edge rushers, by the way. We’re going to get into that. So they they might sign one of the edge rushers that they worked out and add Keon White. Travis Gibson’s out of the building. He was out of practice squad elevations and Trev is headed to the Carolina Panthers. So, the 49ers chose not to move Trevis Gibson onto their 53man roster and instead they trade for Keon White who was not a fit with the New England Patriots. Every team has a different setup along the defensive line, right? Go back to Charles Amenu. He wasn’t a fit with the Houston Texans. He was an awesome fit for the 49ers. I think he’s been a good fit with the Kansas City Chiefs as well, although he’s dealt with the ACL tear. But Amenu, this is what Mike sent me, the comparison between White and Amenu. Uh, Amenu is 6’5, White is 6’5. Amen is 280. White’s been between 285 and 290. White is stronger than Amenu. He’s got 30 bench press reps at the combine. Amenu only 15. The 40 a little bit faster for White, 479 versus 49 for Amenu. Uh, the 10 yard splits are about the same at 17. The vertical leap better for Charles Amenu. And the broad jump’s almost identical. Uh just 9’9 in for White, 2 in shorter for Charles Amenu. So that’s your comp right here. And if the 49ers can get 50% of what they got from Charles Amenu, from Keon White, they are going to this is going to be a great trade for them. Again, the cost is really low. So you’re going to have people complaining without understanding the market dynamics here. If you’re not paying a lot, then it’s a no loss acquisition. and the 49ers had to do something and we thought that they would begin with a low investment move. Now, is there a bigger move to be made? Yes, I talked about Keon White earlier today. I mean, I talked about I talked Mike said I can’t see the relative athletic score that you’re putting up, but that that’s fine. I I tried I tried to show you guys the laptop on the roof. I think you’d rather probably see the view of San Francisco anyway. But um you know the earlier today I was talking about Kavon Tibido and and Kavon is that’s a much bigger name. If the 49ers are able to trade for Kavon Thibido it’s obviously going to cost a lot more. Uh we don’t know if the 49ers have a a spending willingness to go into the Kavon Thibido territory. I think that they should uh because I they’ve acquired almost all of their productive pass rushers not through the draft. They’ve acquired them through trade or free agency. The only plus pass rusher the 49ers have acquired not through uh through the draft has been Nick Bosa. Everybody else including Charles Amen who has been a product of a trade. D Ford product of a trade. Ardan Key free agency for San Francisco. So, they’ve gotten some veterans who have already at least maybe not been necessarily polished, but have developed some sense of belonging in the National Football League. Look, we got a cable car climb climbing up the hill. So, we’ve got he’s stopped right there at Lombard Street. That’s the top of Lumbard. That is the 49ers pass rush right now. It’s moving uphill. It’s it’s good things are happening for the 49ers pass rush. It uh it started very low today. They’ve worked out a bunch of defensive ends. I’m going to name them for you right now, including Casey Tuhill, the Stanford product. And now the 49ers are are climbing. They’re getting better and they’ve got a long way to go. It’s going to be a strenuous climb. Sorry, it’s I know the camera’s shaky. It always is when I’ve got the the zoom on. Don’t get sick as you’re watching on your big screen TVs. Now, look at all those tourists just kind of wasting everybody’s time right by the cable car. It’s like, guys, get out of the way or get back on the cable car. You got to take your pictures of Lombard Street. There’s people waiting. and you’re just holding everybody up. Like, learn how to travel to to a place now. I I probably shouldn’t be like that because I’m trying to help promote the one of these cities that I love, but come on. You know, they’re taking a little too long. That cable car is going downhill. 49ers don’t want to go downhill with the pass rush. They want to go uphill. They want that pass rush to Well, they want to rush downhill, of course, but that they want their team to to be in a better standing, in a better stature, and that’s what San Francisco’s working on right now. I can’t believe that thing is still stuck at the intersection over there of Hide and Lumbard. I mean, I really want to get the shot of the cable car going up the hill, but I think I’m just gonna have to wait since it’s taking all those tourists forever. Finally, I heard the bell ring. Come on, go. We got to start talking about pass. Look at the line of cars behind it. I mean, it’s taking as long to go as it took the 49ers to make this trade. I’m just kidding. It didn’t take the 49ers all that long. The deadline is still a week from now, so they still have 7 days to make more moves, but it’s just like we got this cable car jam on Hide Street, and it’s totally ruining the flow of my show. I guess we can walk over here. You know, you can see Washington Square. All good, too. Finally, he’s on his way. Man, that was ridiculous. That’s why I don’t ride cable cars. It’s not a very efficient way to get around the city, but slowly but surely moving up the hill. Then there’s one going down. That’s the trajectories of the 49ers and the Seahawks. Seahawks are going to be going down. 49ers are going to be going up. It’s just a projection. It’s just a joke. I don’t know. I’m not sure. But the 49ers and the Seahawks will be playing in the final game of this regular season. And obviously San Francisco wants to be more set roster-wise than Margot just texted me. Are the cable cars the breaking news? Now you must have just gotten here, Margot. You must have gotten here a little bit late. The cable cars are metaphor. They’re not breaking news. The breaking news is that Keon White has been traded to the 49ers. Keon White was one of the four defensive linemen in the NFL to play at least 50 15% of snaps at both edge and interior spots. Under a new regime, White has played only eight interior snaps this year with the Patriots. So, coaching change to Mike Vrabel in New England. and Keon White previous to this coaching change had been playing both exterior and interior defensive line. So that’s exactly what I was saying at the top of the show that Keon White is somebody that the 49ers are looking at as a versatile pass rusher, somebody that could be lined up on the outside or the inside for the 49ers. Do we see Keon White play this weekend? I would think so because you know one thing that I talked about when I was advocating for the 49ers to trade for a defensive lineman is that is the position especially edge rusher that you can most plug and play. I mean there’s a history of this regime trading for a lot of these guys. 20 Jordan Willis that was a seventh round pick swap with the Jets very uh similar to what we see here. 2021 Charles Amenu. That was with the Texans. Margot, my wife says that I’m looking hot right now. Thanks, Marggo. I appreciate it. Uh, now you’re you’re distracting me here during this show. Um, 2021 is a men with the Texans. 2022 was Christian McCaffrey. That’s not an edge rusher, but that was still a big impact. 2023 was Chase Young. 49ers made a big trade with Washington for Chase Young. And obviously D Ford came in 2019. And that was an offseason trade with the Kansas City Chiefs. And he he had those health issues. That was a bigger investment for the Auburn alum. D. Ford. Margot went to Auburn. Shout out to them. War Eagle. But uh that was a bigger investment. And obviously the health ended up being a big impediment for the 49ers down the road. But this is not a big investment in Keon White. And I do think that he plays this weekend because edge rusher defensive line is probably the most plug and play position that you can get. All right, 2024 alignment distribution for Keon White. He was at edge rusher 9.9% of the time, 463 snaps. He was at a standard defensive end position, which is further inside for 13.3% of the snaps. It’s 202 snaps. And uh no, sorry, that’s not the percentage. He was at edge rusher 463 snaps with a 10% pressure rate. He was at defensive end for 202 snaps with a 13.3% pressure rate. These are all solid pressure rates, by the way, for a guy that you’re running for a 67 pick swap. And at defensive tackle, he had his highest pressure rate, 86 snaps, 15.8% pressure rate. So, in 2025, he only has seven snaps lined up as defensive tackle, but in those seven snaps, he’s amassed a 25% pressure rate. So, the numbers tell us that this guy, Keon White, whom the 49ers just picked up, is best rushing over the inside where his athleticism is better than offensive guards. And that is exactly the setup that the 49ers want out of their defensive linemen. go back over and over again to Charles Amenu because that is obviously the model for this trade. Good good numbers coming from Anthony Reinhard. Mike supplying those numbers as we go through this. So the 49ers have made the move for a rusher that will be under contract for them through 2026 at a nominal price 67 pick swap. There really is no loss possible in this situation for the 49ers given how deficient their edge rush had been against the Houston Texans this past week. You have to also consider the fact that Bryce Huff is not a long-term absence for the 49ers. He’s probably going to be out this week, but he’s almost certainly going to be back at least for the Rams game. So, what you’re looking for are some bodies with juice, guys who have some effective juice to rush the passer because you didn’t have that against the Texans. And you know, you we always talked about this back when the 49ers added those defensive linemen in the past. You’ve got to trust Chris Cacer. Chris Cacer has a great track record of developing players in that room. The key though for every team is talent and you got to have a foundational pillar. Unfortunately, Nick Bosa is not there to be that foundational pillar on the field, but Bryce Huff has played better than he ever has. He’s played well against the run, too. When he comes back from the hamstring, I think that the the 49ers are have a pillar-like player who tilted the game against the Atlanta Falcons. You have him lining up next to Keon White. Maybe you add somebody else. You hope to get Utor Gross Matoss back. He’s another outside in player. You know, this is how one player can really really boost the pass rush because it’s like a bunch of puzzle pieces, but if but if one of those puzzle pieces is missing, then the other parts of the puzzle don’t fit, right? It’s like the middle of the puzzle, so you need that one base piece to to build around it. Nick Bosa obviously isn’t walking through that door to play this year for the 49ers. He might help tutor the guys in the meeting room and at practice, but when you’re talking about foundations for this season, Bryce Huff can give that to the 49ers. Not as as high of a level as Bosa. It would have been better with Bosa and Huff. I get it. But the 49ers just have to operate with what’s available and take steps forward based on their situation right now. And that’s what you’re seeing them do with this trade for Keon White. Yeah, Mike Mike thinks it’s really important he’s under contract through 2026. That that’s everything that the 49ers have told us has revolved around that. Like we want a guy, this is what they’ve said, both Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch. We want a guy who’s available to help us beyond this season because let’s talk a little bit about the 49ers three-year window that they’ve set up. They ran a reset, a cost reset this off season and a youth reset. They needed to get younger because they were too damn old last year. And the reset that they ran kept foundational pillars aboard. So Nick Bosa still around. Fred Warner still around. Obviously Lenor offense McCaffrey, Trent Williams, Brock Perie, Brandon Iayuk, Bricky Pieraw, whoever you consider to be the pillar at the receiver room. George KD tight end Kyle Yuschek is a pillar. All those guys stayed with the 49ers. So, it wasn’t like this tear down and rebuild, but what it was was this reset around the pillars and you had to allow the youth to blossom into productivity because you put so much into these past two draft classes. Even the young players that aren’t rookies that are on this team, there was an eye toward the future, an eye toward development with getting these guys. somebody like Bryce Huff when they traded for him, he didn’t do anything in Philadelphia, but the 49ers saw what he did under Robert Solo with the New York Jets and they figured that he could blossom and further develop in his in this system and that’s exactly what they’ve done. But when you’re on a blossoming plan, blossoming timetable, you implicitly acknowledge that the best for these young players probably won’t be this year. It’s probably going to take a lot of these guys a full year to to really get the ropes, get their bearings at the NFL level. So, what you do as the 49ers is you opened up a new three-year window. You’re probably going to peak as a football team in 2026, but that doesn’t mean that you’re not going to try to contend in 2025. You can’t not try to contend in 2025 because guys like Trent Williams, Christian McAffrey aren’t gonna get any younger. Fred Warner not getting any younger. Unfortunately, some of these massive injuries have hurt the 49ers, but I don’t think they’ve knocked them out of contention because there’s a lot of parody in the league and and obviously they’re still contending for this season. But they have to they absolutely have to look toward 2026 because they are in this three-year window when they’re making trades. That doesn’t preclude a rental totally, a guy that’s only under contract for 2025 because I still think there are benefits to making sure that the defense doesn’t fall off of a cliff this year when you’re trying to build confidence and you’re trying to build a culture. I I think that the fact that the 49ers are five and three right now, fighting as hard as they are, actually is a sort of a positive justification for a rental, but you would prefer a player who’s under contract through 2026 and Keon White also is under contract. Another comparison that Mike said is there from a size and athleticism standpoint is Michael Bennett, who’s obviously part of that Legion of Boom in Seattle. He would be outside in for the Seattle Seahawks. just a ferocious pass rusher. Again, the relative athletic score here is 991, which is really good when you compare Keon White to defensive tackles and you see the pressure rate of 15% when he’s been lined up on the inside. And it just didn’t work out for New England this year under the new regime with Mike Vrabel. This is from Mark Daniels who covers the Patriots. He writes, “It was a strange season for Keon White. He was demoted in camp, missed the game due to illness, healthy scratch for the first time in his career. Well, as we know, like Max Jones has been allowed to really blossom with his personality with the 49ers. Mack wasn’t allowed to do that back with the Bellich Patriots. And I have a feeling that Mike Vrabel probably runs the ship at least similarly to how Bill Bellichic did in New England where you if you talk to the media and you get a little too mouthy with the media, I’ll put it that way. If you start if you start sharing a little bit too much, if you start showing a little too much personality, uh they’re not going to take kindly to that in New England. And it sounds like right after Keon White did that, according to Mark Daniels, he was a healthy scratch. So, you see this happen a lot in the NFL. Regimes change. Some players fall out of favor because the new regime wants their own guys. Kon White’s playing time obviously tumbled after the the illness. It it doesn’t seem like the the Patriots were happy that he missed that game due to illness. And there are a lot of Patriots fans apparently not happy with what they traded him for. I mean, the 49ers basically got Keon White for a bag of chips. 67 pick swap. And uh it was very very obvious that the 49ers were on the market to make a move like this. The fact that they made a move at this point, October 28th, a week ahead of the trade deadline, means that they’re probably still going to be scouring the market for more moves. We’ve said that multiple moves are possible for San Francisco, and I think that uh this does nothing to dissuade me from that course of action. The 49ers and the Patriots have a trade history. And this is not nearly not exactly to to the to the day of the most famous 49ers Patriots trade, but it’s close. On October 31st, Halloween 2017, San Francisco traded with the New England Patriots for a quarterback named Jimmy Garopolo. So, here we are 8 years later on October 28th of 2025. The 49ers have made a smaller trade, not a massive move, but a very, very needed one for Keon White, the versatile defensive lineman from New England. Really, really interesting intel though from Mark Daniels. You know, a lot of people are always going to ask, well, why was he available? Why are the Patriots willing to sell at that low of a price? posible regime change in the NFL again means some players fall out of favor, but one team’s trash can be another team’s treasure. And I look no further than Charles Amenu, which is our biggest comp here for Keon White, the 49ers new pass rusher. Sounds like the New England Patriots are in big time sell mode. They’re sending safety Kyle Duggar and a seventhround pick to the Steelers in exchange for a sixth round pick. So, similar price for Kyle Duggar, the New England safety, also hold over previous regime. The basically the same exact price, 67 pick swap with Pittsburgh. 49ers got Keon White for the 67 pick swap. And I do think that he’s going to be in the lineup when the 49ers face the New York Giants on Sunday. I also think that if possible, the 49ers should not take off from Newark Liberty International Airport, which is where they’re going to fly into and out of on their United charter. I do not think that they should leave without Kavon Pibido. I don’t know if the Giants are going to take kindly to that, if the Giants would allow that, but if the 49ers just beat the brakes off the New York Giants, who are already two-6, make him two and seven. Brock Birdie might play this weekend. By the way, if you’re the New York Giants, you have to think about trading Kavon Tibido because I mean this is a team that’s already lost Cam Scataboo for the season. Already lost Malik Neighbors for the season. They’re starting a a rookie quarterback and Jackson Dart. Their run defense is absolutely horrendous. Even though Thibido has been good, they drafted Abdul Carter last year. You might want to give him more playing time and just rack up the assets for Kavon Thibido. The one thing holding that up is that Kavon’s been playing his best football this year. always had been considered a player with unrealized potential up until this season. He’s their best run defender and he’s getting after the quarterback. I mean, he’s been a multi- double-digit sack guy in the past. It’s not like even when there was some unrealized potential that he was a bad player. Kavon’s always been a really, really good player. He would be a transformative player for the 49ers defense. I don’t think that Kon White is a transformative player. I think he’s a a boost that the 49ers really needed. I think they got him at a very economical price and I do not think that they’re done yet when it comes to trading for defensive linemen. I mean, they you kill two birds with one stone if you can get a guy that can rush on the outside and also rush on the inside. And that’s exactly where Keon White fits into the equation. Man, Duggar just signed a four-year 58 million deal last year and the Patriots traded him for the same bag of chips that they traded Keon White to the 49ers. That’s wild. It just goes to show you that the regime change though in New England has met a lot of change. Like it’s it’s spurred a lot of change in New England. And part of it the 49ers should benefit from and we’ll see if the Steelers benefit from the the Kyle Duggar trade. Patriots are also six and two and making some of these trades. That’s a good point from Mike. They got one of the best records in the entire NFL. Well, I was just waiting for some of the information to come through here. If you guys want to take a look, let’s walk around a little bit as we discuss the trade and then we get on out of here. And it is a beautiful day in San Francisco. I promised I’d show you guys the Golden Gate Bridge. As a bonus, we’ve even got a ship coming through. This is going to be awesome. Take a look at that. The bridge shipment. It’s empty. Wonder why. Probably picking up some cargo in the port of Oakland. There’s the Golden Gate Bridge. There’s where I swim. There’s Alcatraz. And we could swing around. And I was waiting to do a live on the roof for when the 49ers finally traded for an edge rusher. So this is what you guys get. They trade for an edge rusher. We do the live on the roof. Beautiful San Francisco. Oh my god, my laptop. Does that make you guys nervous? Looks like it’s about to fall. Better be careful. Back. All right, Mike. What do you think? You guys have any good questions? I can’t see the screen. Keon White, Kyle Der, both draft picks from the Bill Bich regime. It’s funny because you’re back to varel now there, but I mean I’m sure there’s some Bellichian rules there, but but they’re also looking for different types of players. The league does evolve. 49ers have their edge rusher. Keon White should be in uniform for them this week. I’ll be out at practice tomorrow to go check everything out. Keon big edge rusher. Compare it to Charles Amen. If the 49ers can see any type of the success that Charles Amenu brought them in that trade with the Texans back in 2021, this will be highly highly successful for the 49ers. Either way, not a lot of downside given the price that the 49ers paid for Keon White. And I predict they are not done. I predicted one trade. I advocated for a trade. I was banging the table for a trade. Now, let’s uh see what else comes out of this. Those are the details. Read all about it in the San Francisco Standard. We will talk to everybody soon. It’s been fun. See you guys later.

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