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49ers Cut Dante Pettis

Apparently I run the 49ers.

Grant Cohn

Apparently I run the 49ers.

On Sunday, after Dante Pettis got himself knocked out of the 49ers humiliating 37-27 loss to the Seattle Seahawks by tiptoeing upfield during a kick return and getting splattered on the turf, I tweeted that the 49ers should just release Pettis.

Now, they have, according to the Athletic.

The 49ers released Pettis Tuesday afternoon just after Kyle Shanahan spoke to the media. Pettis had requested a trade and the 49ers were unable to find a trade partner, for obvious reasons. Pettis is a bust who seems afraid of contact, and doesn’t seem to particularly like playing football.

In retrospect, it was predictable that the 49ers would release Pettis this week. When I tweeted that they should release him, Fred Warner’s dad liked my tweet. Bad sign. And now the trade deadline has passed, so there’s no chance to trading Pettis. The 49ers had to cut him. See ya, Dante..

I respect the 49ers for admitting their mistake and moving on, but they should have released him sooner. They held onto him so long because they traded up for Pettis in Round 2 of the 2018 draft. He played well at times as a rookie, but got injured and seemed to shy away from contact more and more as his career progressed. Now his career might be over. Who needs a wide receiver who protects himself and plays half speed?

Good luck, Dante. If you can’t find a team, you’re welcome to join All49ers as a junior correspondent.

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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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