Your daily San Francisco 49ers for Thursday, May 1st, 2025
- OTA workouts: May 27-28, May 30, June 2-3, and June 5
- Mandatory minicamp: June 10-11
Kawakami: The 49ers’ payroll purge is over, and they’re acting like a normal team again (paywall)
“Add the Humphries addition to last week’s well-thought-out 11-player draft and to George Kittle’s new record-breaking contract extension and just in the last few days there’s suddenly evidence that Shanahan and Lynch are back running the personnel shop.
The payroll purge happened last month. It was directed by the 49ers’ financial side as Shanahan and Lynch mostly looked on as spectators. But now it’s over.
And these are all positive signs for the two big-box items the 49ers have left on their offseason list: Getting Brock Purdy and Fred Warner signed to reasonable long-term extensions before the start of training camp in late July — or, preferably for everybody, by next month’s minicamp.”
Ranking the 49ers’ undrafted haul, which includes ‘most gifted’ WR in the class (paywall)
“Arguably the most physically gifted athlete in the 2025 NFL Draft class.”
That’s Brugler’s assessment of Neyor, who measured 6-foot-4, 218 pounds with 34 1/2 -inch arms, and who ran his 40-yard dash in 4.4 seconds at the NFL combine. Not only is Neyor’s 83 ½-inch wingspan greater than any wide receiver in this year’s draft class, it’s larger than any of the tight ends who were drafted.
We bounced the 49ers’ undrafted list off of two other NFL evaluators, and both put Neyor at the top of the list, too. So why did Brugler rate him as merely a sixth-round pick and why did he fall out of the draft altogether?
Brugler has a prominent “but” in his takeaway: “But aggressive defenders can negate his physical advantages and the inconsistencies in his game make him a better talent than a football player.”
Why did slow-negotiating 49ers finalize George Kittle’s extension in April? (paywall)
“That dynamic is why Shanahan urged his players to report for the start of the voluntary offseason program after their 2024 regular-season finale. Linebacker Fred Warner said Shanahan wanted them to “sacrifice” and “build this thing the right way.” Last week general manager John Lynch used the same language, saying the 49ers needed to have a “shared sacrifice,” when he noted that almost every player was in attendance for Phase 1, a two-week period that’s focused on strength and conditioning.
That group of veterans who reported for the first day included Bosa and Williams, All-Pros and team captains who have spent most of their offseason training in Florida and Texas, respectively, in past years.
“We have too many guys that don’t know what we’ve been through the last five, eight years,” Shanahan said. “And we’ve got to show them that in Phase 1. How we work and go about things. And really establish that hard work.”
Baldinger lists 49ers pick Williams as top NFL DROY candidate
“He’s an elite talent. And if Bosa’s getting a lot of double teams, Mykel Williams has the ability to beat one-on-ones with [offensive] tackles or slide protections or anything else. Mykel Williams is in that [Defensive Rookie of the Year] conversation.”