{"id":150951,"date":"2025-06-22T22:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T22:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/150951\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T22:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T22:41:13","slug":"49ers-news-draft-pick-praise-free-agent-spending-and-more-for-cardinals-fans-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/150951\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers news: Draft pick praise, free agent spending and more for Cardinals fans to know"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have made it through another week in the NFL offseason, and that means we will check in with the Arizona Cardinals’ NFC West rivals. What is new with the LA Rams, San Francisco 49ers<\/a> and Seattle Seahawks?<\/p>\n

Here are a few stories about the 49ers from the last week that Cardinals fans should know.<\/p>\n

GM praises top draft pick<\/p>\n

The 49ers selected EDGE Mykel Williams in the first round, a promising player the Cardinals probably would have selected were he still on the board at No. 16. 49ers GM John Lynch spoke about Williams<\/a> and now it felt like he was a perfect fit.<\/p>\n

Why the Niners cut back on free agent spending this year<\/p>\n

Most will look at what the 49ers did in the offseason and consider it bad. They lost a number of starters in free agency. Lynch explained why they took a more measured approach<\/a>.<\/p>\n

George Kittle stands up for ex-teammate<\/p>\n

The Niners traded receiver Deebo Samuel to the Washington Commanders. Some footage of Samuel came out and many have called him fat and slow. Kittle defended Samuel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brock Purdy considered dark horse for MVP<\/p>\n

Purdy was a legitimate MVP candidate two seasons ago. He struggled more last season when his best players were hurt. But one analyst believes that Purdy could be a dark horse<\/a> for this next season’s MVP award.<\/p>\n

Rookie LB needs surgery, will be ready for training camp<\/p>\n

Third-round pick Nick Martin, a linebacker, broke his thumb in offseason workouts but did not miss any time. He is expected to have surgery and be ready for training camp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on Cards Wire: 5 49ers stories for Cardinals fans to know from last week<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We have made it through another week in the NFL offseason, and that means we will check in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,390,2644,1705,7,6066,2810,4099,1493,6,7828,906,1161,252,2624,2623,261,9078,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-150951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-brock-purdy","11":"tag-deebo-samuel","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-george-kittle","14":"tag-john-lynch","15":"tag-la-rams","16":"tag-mykel-williams","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-nfl-offseason","19":"tag-nick-martin","20":"tag-san-francisco","21":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","22":"tag-sanfrancisco","23":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers","24":"tag-seattle-seahawks","25":"tag-the-niners","26":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114729431243614895","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}