After spending the tail end of 2020 on the San Francisco 49ers roster, former No. 10 overall pick Josh Rosen is heading into his fourth NFL season and first full year with the team. And it’s not going great so far.
Rosen is currently competing with Nate Sudfeld for the third-string QB job. Speaking to the media this weekend, via the San Francisco Chronicle, 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan revealed that Rosen recently took “a couple steps back.”
“I think he started off real well,” Shanahan said. “And I think he’s taken a couple steps back the last few practices.”
The biggest mistake Rosen made so far came this past weekend. Rosen threw an airball towards a receiver, which was easily picked off. Shanahan didn’t sugarcoat how rough the play was from his perspective.
“It was unfortunate on that,” Shanahan said. “We were supposed to go to someone and we had a busted route. So it then kind of fell apart and he tried to overcompensate. And he made a bad situation worse.”
Shanahan says that Josh Rosen started camp well “but has taken a couple steps back” as of late. Obviously a negative review of the QB, the first one on the record from Shanahan.
I’d firmly peg Nate Sudfeld into the QB3 spot right now #49ers
— David Lombardi (@LombardiHimself) August 8, 2021
Since going No. 10 overall in the 2018 NFL Draft, Rosen has never started a season on the same team for multiple years. He started the 2018 season with the Arizona Cardinals, 2019 with the Miami Dolphins and 2020 on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ practice squad.
Assuming Rosen even makes the 49ers’ final 53-man roster, this season he’ll play for his fourth team in as many years.
It’s a stunning fall from grace for Rosen, who was projected as a top-three quarterback prospect in his draft class.
If he can’t make the roster for the 49ers and loses the third-string job, his short NFL career could be cut even shorter.
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