49ers try out 7 QBs to patch up position, None named Colin

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On Monday, when asked how many off-the-street quarterbacks the 49ers would be hosting for a tryout, Kyle Shanahan responded with gallows humor.


“As many as we can get,” Shanahan said. “No, I’m just joking.”


Shanahan’s half-serious thinking: If the 49ers invite enough unemployed QBs, perhaps one serviceable signal-caller would be found in the scrapheap.


On Tuesday, the 49ers hosted seven QBs in Santa Clara as they moved to address a position that took a devastating hit when Jimmy Garoppolo sustained a torn ACL in Sunday’s 38-27 loss in Kansas City.


The tryout group included Kellen Clemens, 35, T.J. Yates, 31, and Tom Savage, 28. In addition, E.J. Manuel, 28, Landry Jones, 29, and Matt Simms, 29, and undrafted rookie Kyle Allen, 22, were also reportedly in Santa Clara to compete for the roster spot.


The 49ers also invited Matt Moore, 34, but he declined the offer, his agent, Lynn Lashbrook, said. Moore, who would have been the most experienced and accomplished of the tryout QBs, has been evaluating whether to return to the NFL after starting five games for the Dolphins the past two seasons.


Moore, 15-15 as a starter, has an 81.2 passer rating, 45 touchdowns and 36 interceptions in an 11-year career spent with the Panthers and Dolphins. Clemens, Yates, Savage, Manuel, Landry and Simms have a combined record of 23-40 and have thrown 60 touchdowns and 63 interceptions. They have a combined passer rating of 72.9.


It’s clearly a group that has some warts, but the 49ers won’t be relying one of the tryout QBs to save their season.


Instead, they will be pinning their hopes on C.J. Beathard, who started five games last year as a rookie after he was selected in the third round. Beathard went 1-4 with a 69.2 passer rating, but did have a notable high-water mark late in his baptism by fire.


In his penultimate start, he guided the 49ers, then 0-9, to their first win by completing 19 of 25 passes for 288 yards with two touchdowns and an interception in a 31-21 victory the Giants. Beathard’s passer rating (123.4) was the highest by a 49ers QB in their last 45 games.


“C.J. is a gamer, a guy who loves to play,” Shanahan said. “I know even though he doesn’t like how it happened, I know he is as excited about his opportunity.”


Given the punishment Beathard endured last year, it’s fair to wonder if his opportunity with a 1-2 team will include 13 starts.


In 2017, Beathard stoically took 17 sacks and absorbed 52 hits in his five starts before he was forced to the sideline with knee and hip injuries late in a loss to the Seahawks. Beathard was hailed for his toughness, but he took a pounding partly because he held on the ball too long in the pocket.


Shanahan was asked if Beathard’s decision-making process had accelerated in his second season.


“We’ll see as these weeks go,” Shanahan said. “But I think that experience — everything he went through last year when it was good and bad — he learned from it. The stuff he did bad at, I think he’ll do better at this year.”


The absence of Garoppolo explains why the 49ers have been installed as a 10 ½-point underdogs for their visit to the Chargers (1-2) on Sunday in Los Angeles.


The plan for this week is to promote practice-squad QB Nick Mullens to the 53-man roster, which means the 49ers could carry three quarterbacks if, at some point, they sign one of their tryout players.


Given Mullens’ inexperience — he’s never taken a regular-season snap — it’s possible the 49ers would turn to a tryout QB if Beathard is sidelined this season.


In that case, they would be turning to Plan C at QB, and would have to hope they found someone serviceable in the scrap heap.

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I dont think we will see Kapernick on the field again. I think he's blackballed like Ray Rice. Maybe when the new football league starts in the spring someone will sign him. He walked away from alot of money when he opted out of his deal with SF
 
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I dont think we will see Kapernick on the field again. I think he's blackballed like Ray Rice. Maybe when the new football league starts in the spring someone will sign him. He walked away from alot of money when he opted out of his deal with SF

Ray Charles could see that...the owners have always been in the drivers seat....I know I am in the minority but I would like to see Kap get another shot.
 

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the game is too quick for anyone to take 2 years off and come back and be effective at the qb position. at this point kaepernick has been away from football long enough that the argument that he should be on a team because of his ability is debatable and to me laughable. initially yes you could argue he was good enough, but now i dont think so. its almost insulting to the qbs in the league now that dedicate all their time to their craft to think someone could just pick it up after being away from it for years.
 

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This is gonna be like Trent Green getting hurt and Kurt Warner taking over
 

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Let him make his commercials.

Piece of shit
 

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I would love to see him get Curbed,, then shipped back to Uganda,,
 

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Landry Jones should get a shot, youngest with the highest ceiling of the bunch
 

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I think he burned some bridges in his last start (?)in Chicago. He looked like he quit on his team that game.
 

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Matt Simms is on that list

Lol
 
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the game is too quick for anyone to take 2 years off and come back and be effective at the qb position. at this point kaepernick has been away from football long enough that the argument that he should be on a team because of his ability is debatable and to me laughable. initially yes you could argue he was good enough, but now i dont think so. its almost insulting to the qbs in the league now that dedicate all their time to their craft to think someone could just pick it up after being away from it for years.

Agree with everything you said.

That guy doesn't have his head in football. I'm not against his cause. But I definitely wouldn't pick him up not matter how desperate. Why would anybody pick him up? Why is it even a topic of conversation? He doesn't have his head in the game and even if he did I never thought he was a good QB. I was saying it way back when he was doing good with the 49ers when they went to the Superbowl to lose to my Ravens. He was the beneficiary of the league not having tape on him which happens combined with the fact that that 49ers team was pretty damn good!
 

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