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49ers Give Kyle Shanahan New Six-Year Contract Through 2025

This is well deserved.

Grant Cohn

This is well deserved.

On Monday, the 49ers gave head coach Kyle Shanahan a new six-year contract through 2025, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.

Shanahan previously had signed a six-year contract with the 49ers in 2017. Now, he has a newer, more lucrative six-year deal. Shanahan now is one of the five highest-paid head coaches in the NFL, per Schefter.

When Shanahan took over the 49ers, they had arguably the worst roster in the NFL. And during Shanahan's first season, he lost 10 of his first 11 games. But then the 49ers traded for Jimmy Garoppolo and built one of the best teams in the NFL in just three seasons. Remarkable.

Now the 49ers have an elite roster AND an elite coaching staff. In 2021, defensive coordinator Robert Saleh could become a head coach on another team, while passing game coordinator Mike LaFleur and running game coordinator Mike McDaniel could be offensive coordinators elsewhere. The whole league wants a piece of what Shanahan has built.

Shanahan has established himself as one of the most creative and forward-thinking offensive coaches in the league -- he's in the highest echelon with Andy Reid, Sean Payton and Bruce Arians. And Shanahan is much younger than those three -- he's only 40. He might end up having a better career than all of them.

When the 49ers hired Shanahan, he was a 37-year-old offensive coordinator who had just lost a 28-3 lead in the Super Bowl. The 49ers could have changed their minds after the Super Bowl and rescinded their offer -- Shanahan's stock was down. But they didn't rescind their offer. They believed in him.

Good for the 49ers, and good for Shanahan.

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GRANT COHN

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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