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Trey Lance Plans to Throw this Weekend

Lance went on Instagram on Thursday to invite college wide receivers to practice with him in San Jose on Friday.INLINE

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Here comes Trey Lance.

While Brock Purdy waits for the inflammation in his elbow to go away so he can have surgery to repair his ruptured UCL, Lance is throwing passes. Of course, he won't be fully cleared until OTAs in April, but he's showing progress, which is important, considering he's the only semi-healthy quarterback on the 49ers roster and he's had two ankle surgeries in the past five months.

Lance went on Instagram on Thursday to invite college wide receivers to practice with him in San Jose on Friday.

Lance presumably needs receivers to run routes so he can throw passes. Obviously, he can't organize a full practice, because he's not fully cleared and he doesn't have an entire roster. But a group of wide receivers will allow Lance to practice all the throws he needs to make in the 49ers offense, and will give the college wide receivers a unique opportunity to practice with an NFL quarterback.

Even Brandon Aiyuk took to Instagram to help Lance solicit players, writing, "Brother said he tryna lock in he need wideouts!"

Aiyuk's social media efforts on behalf of Lance are admirable, but it's odd that Lance couldn't get any of the 49ers' actual wide receivers to work with him this weekend. Not even Aiyuk. Last year, those two were attached at the hip -- they worked together frequently away from the 49ers facility before OTAs began. 

Wouldn't Lance get more out of throwing to players he will play with this year as opposed to players he never will play with? Couldn't Deebo Samuel or Jauan Jennings or Ray Ray McCloud or Danny Gray or someone on the practice squad meet up with Lance today?

Strange.

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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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