Despite the hustle and bustle surrounding the San Francisco 49ers’ presence at Ohio Fields quarterback Ohio State’s second pro-day Wednesday, most people in the league still expect the team to select Alabama fullback Mac Jones with the No. 3 spot. choice in the 2021 Draft NFL.
Michael Lombardi of Athletic, a former NFL general manager, said in a radio appearance on Thursday that nothing seems to have changed regarding the perception that head coach Kyle Shanahan Jones desires (and here’s your obligatory reminder that there is evidence that the league proposes) wide perception is down).
“I would say 98% of the league believe the 49ers take Mac Jones,” he said. ‘And for all the talk about Justin Fields training well, there are people in the league who do not think it was a good training session. Maybe it’s the people who are not setting up a quarterback, I do not know, but let’s leave Fields out of the conversation for a moment. ‘
The training session was closed to the media, and only snippets of the throwing session were released by the Ohio State media team.
Denver radio host NFL concept expert Benjamin Allbright took to Twitter doubts about Lombardi’s reportand take note of the people he spoke to, There was A “LOT of buzz connecting Fields with 3 / SF in the last 24 hours.”
Allbright further shared a quote of an anonymous competitor of the division who said: ‘I will believe Mac Jones when I see [Roger] Goodell read the map, and even after that I’m looking at CGI … ‘
It is noteworthy that the conflicting reports are about what people in the league think, and not what people in Santa Clara think. There were no credible reports from Santa Clara, other than Albert Breer, of Sports Illustrated, that Shanahan did not even disclose his quarterback evaluation to his own assistants.