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49ers Trade Matt Breida to Dolphins for 5th Round pick, Select Colton McKivitz

The San Francisco 49ers have traded running back Matt Breida to the Miami Dolphins for a fifth-round, which the 49ers used to take West Virginia offensive tackle Colton McKivitz.

Grant Cohn

The 49ers just swapped a veteran running back for a rookie offensive lineman.

The 49ers traded running back Matt Breida to the Miami Dolphins for a fifth-round pick (153), and used that pick to select West Virginia offensive tackle Colton McKivitz, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.

The 49ers signed Breida as an undrafted free agent in 2017. He played three seasons with the 49ers and averaged a whopping 5.0 yards per carry. He is one of the fastest and most efficient runners in the NFL, and will have a chance to start next season for the Dolphins if he beats out Jordan Howard and Kalen Ballage.

Breida started 13 games for the 49ers in 2018, then became their change-of-pace back in 2019 after they signed veteran Tevin Coleman. Breida eventually fell out of the running-back rotation after fumbling late in the season, and never ran the ball in the Super Bowl. Raheem Mostert took his job as the No. 2 running back. The 49ers didn't have a use for Breida.

But they'll have a use for rookie offensive lineman Colton McKivitz. He could compete to start next season at right guard, because the 49ers released veteran starter Mike Person earlier this offseason. McKivitz played tackle in college and could become the 49ers' right tackle if Mike McGlinchey ever moves to the left side.

McKivitiz was a four-year starter in college, so he's experienced enough to contribute right away if needed. He was an honorable mention All Big 12 player in both 2017 and 2018. And in 2019, he was a third-team All American.

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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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