All 49ers

The 49ers Claim Cornerback Tre Avery off Waivers

This is not a big move.

Grant Cohn

Tennessee Titans cornerback Tre Avery (23) huddles with teammates before a game against the Cincinnati Bengals at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tenn., Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023.
Tennessee Titans cornerback Tre Avery (23) huddles with teammates before a game against the Cincinnati Bengals at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tenn., Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023. / Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean / USA TODAY NETWORK
In this story:

This is not a big move.

The 49ers just announced that they've claimed former Tennessee Titans cornerback Tre Avery off waivers. And they claimed him most likely because Charvarius Ward could miss the rest of the season due to the birth of his son and the 49ers need another cornerback to fill out the roster. Ward will be a free agent when the season ends and most likely has played his final game with the 49ers.

Avery obviously didn't get to practice with the 49ers this week -- he was on the Titans practice squad until they waived him on Saturday. Which means Avery almost certainly will not play in the 49ers' Monday night game against the Detroit Lions. And then he'll be a free agent when the season ends in a week.

The 49ers clearly want to get a look at Avery before he hits free agency. They can play him in their season finale against the Arizona Cardinals and see how he fits in their defense. He can take the place of veteran Isaac Yiadom who will be a free agent in a week as well. The 49ers need to start playing younger players, anyway.

Avery was an undrafted free agent in 2022. He spent the first two seasons on the Titans where he played more than 30 percent of their defensive snaps. But this season, Tennessee waived him, re-signed him to their practice squad, elevated him to their 53-man roster and then waived him again. That's how the 49ers got him.

Let's see if he makes an impact.

Download and follow The Cohn Zohn Podcast.

Published
Grant Cohn
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.

Home/News