Your daily San Francisco 49ers news for Sunday, January 19th, 2025
How 49ers acquired each of their projected comp picks in 2025 NFL draft
“The 49ers snagged a third-round comp pick in the 2025 draft when DeMeco Ryans and Ran Carthon were both hired in the same offseason. Ryans went to the Houston Texans as their head coach. Carthon went to the Tennessee Titans as their general manager.”
‘Talk about betting the farm’: Inside 49ers’ all-in effort to beat Cowboys 30 years ago (paywall)
“In the days before the titanic clash between the San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys, the 49ers’ then-president and CEO was asked by a reporter about the consequences of losing to Dallas in the conference title game for a third straight season. Speaking in his office at the team headquarters in Santa Clara, Policy gestured to a memento he had purchased years earlier when the 49ers had played in a preseason game in Tokyo.
“I pointed to the samurai sword on the shelf,” Policy recalled, “and I said, ‘I’ll do the honorable thing.’”