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Colin Cowherd and Mike Silver Say the 49ers are Worried About Trey Lance

"They're rebuilding his delivery, and he gets arm fatigue. It's not an easy throw. He needs days off."

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NFL Insider Mike Silver and talking head Colin Cowherd broke news about the 49ers today on their podcast.

Both Cowherd and Silver reported that they have inside sources who say the 49ers are worried about Trey Lance, and that's the real reason they still have Jimmy Garoppolo on the roster.

Here's what they said:

COWHERD: "You and I may have the same source, we may not, but I've said when I saw Trey Lance play, aesthetically, it's ugly. It's not Philip-Rivers ugly, but it's not a pretty delivery. It's really rough. Secondly, what you're saying is what I'm hearing -- they're rebuilding his delivery, and he gets arm fatigue. It's not an easy throw. He needs days off. And they're worried about his accuracy. You and I are hearing the same things."

SILVER: "The arm fatigue is a really interesting thing, and I have heard that, too. And so people don't think this is just the two of us doing our conspiracy theories, let's just look at some facts. Last year, they were going to use a Trey Lance package -- they were thrilled about it. That was going to be a big, big weapon for them. They started out doing it, and then they just stopped. So, something happened to convince Kyle Shanahan that he didn't gain by putting Lance in situationally. Another thing that happened is they were 3-5. I went to the game that dropped them to 3-5 at home against the Cardinals. They looked flat. They looked done. Their playmakers weren't making plays. They looked like a dead team. And usually when you look like a dead team and you traded three first-round picks for a promising rookie the spring before, we know what happens -- Jimmy, you're on the bench, Trey Lance, let's see. They hung with Jimmy. They beat the Rams. They got well. They made the run. So the fact that they stopped using Lance at all and they didn't put him in when the season was crossed up tells me they were seeing something that was concerning."

Listen to the full podcast here.

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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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