{"id":17648,"date":"2025-05-02T10:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T10:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/17648\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T10:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T10:16:11","slug":"49ers-news-about-a-week-until-rookie-minicamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/17648\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers News: About a week until rookie minicamp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Saleh\u2019s fingerprints are all over 49ers\u2019 draft haul <\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cOne of Saleh\u2019s primary coaching points has always been that his defenses have to earn the right to rush the passer by first stopping the run. In Saleh\u2019s first four seasons in San Francisco, the 49ers were sixth in the NFL in yards per carry allowed (4.1) and third in EPA on defensive rush plays (132.29).<\/p>\n

Which explains why the Niners\u2019 top picks were made with an eye toward returning to the days of shutdown run defense.\u201d<\/p>\n

49ers\u2019 NFL Draft class: Scot McCloughan dishes on Mykel Williams, C.J. West, more (paywall) <\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cMcCloughan had Williams rated about the same as Michigan defensive tackle Kenneth Grant \u2014 one of the largest defenders in the draft \u2014 and slightly ahead of Texas A&M defensive end Shermar Stewart and Ole Miss defensive tackle Walter Nolen, whom McCloughan also liked from a talent standpoint. He said he had no issue with either Williams\u2019 or Stewart\u2019s lack of sack production in college.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody says that \u2014 \u2018Sacks, sacks, sacks!\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter. What matters are disruptions. The quarterback runs out of the pocket because (Williams) gets back there, and somebody else makes the sack. Or he\u2019s throwing the ball away\u201d……McCloughan had Texas defensive tackle Alfred Collins rated as a mid-second-round pick, which is roughly where the 49ers took him. He said Collins isn\u2019t as athletic and twitchy as Grant, who ended up being drafted No. 13 by the Miami Dolphins, but that he sees Collins at minimum becoming a rotational player for San Francisco.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a tough guy, a run stopper,\u201d McCloughan said. \u201cHe\u2019s not going to ever be a good pass rusher. But he plays hard. He\u2019ll help them this year, I guarantee it.\u201d <\/p>\n

49ers bring in Kenneth Almendares, NCAA\u2019s top kicker, to challenge Jake Moody (paywall) <\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cLast season Almendares led the nation in field-goal percentage (90.3%), making 28 of 31 attempts, and won the Groza Award, which is given to college football\u2019s top placekicker.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Saleh\u2019s fingerprints are all over 49ers\u2019 draft haul \u201cOne of Saleh\u2019s primary coaching points has always been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,2329,1859,3663,1131,7,29,3515,28,88,6,1136,2583,1161,252,1137,2624,2623,5021,1549],"class_list":{"0":"post-17648","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-a","10":"tag-about","11":"tag-category-daily-links","12":"tag-ers","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-front-page","15":"tag-minicamp","16":"tag-nation","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-niners","20":"tag-rookie","21":"tag-san-francisco","22":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","23":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","24":"tag-sanfrancisco","25":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers","26":"tag-until","27":"tag-week"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114437723597417617","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17648","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=17648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}