{"id":60102,"date":"2025-06-07T12:18:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T12:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=60102"},"modified":"2025-06-07T12:18:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T12:18:45","slug":"golden-nuggets-this-summer-will-be-critical-for-the-offensive-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=60102","title":{"rendered":"Golden Nuggets: This summer will be critical for the offensive line"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Kurtenbach: I see the vision for the 49ers\u2019 much-maligned offensive line and it\u2019s just fine (paywall)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAll this to say that judging offensive line play is seriously subjective at best and borderline irresponsible without knowing the actual play call on the field.<\/p>\n<p>And these days, with the steady deterioration of play at the position \u2014 a byproduct of spread offenses, bad coaching, and a lack of bodies at the lower levels of the game \u2014 it doesn\u2019t take much to be good enough.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m guessing that, health permitting, the 49ers\u2019 pressure rate will go down in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Purdy was one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL per Expected Points Added, despite being pressured more than 35 percent of the time last season. He was one of two quarterbacks amongst the top-15 most-pressured signal-callers to have a positive EPA. He doubled the other, Sam Darnold, with 67 EPA to 26. (Will Levis was minus-94.4, which almost seems impossible.)<\/p>\n<p>And Purdy did all that with the 26th highest rate of play-action passes and the 29th ranked average separation for targeted receivers. Things were not made easy for him.<\/p>\n<p>A little bit better than good enough on the offensive line could spur Purdy to have a monster, perhaps MVP-caliber season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>I can see not only that for the 49ers this upcoming season, but also how this offensive line shakes out in the years to come.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to the folks who call into my KNBR shows and comment on my podcast, Forester helped turn right tackle Colton McKivitz into a solid player in recent seasons. I\u2019d go as far as to say he was pretty good last year \u2014 arguably the Niners\u2019 best offensive lineman.<\/p>\n<p>And seeing as McKivitz was better than Moore, who, again, is now a $15 million-a-year lineman, the Niners might have to wave goodbye to him after this season.<\/p>\n<p>Cue the understudies, Burford and Pleasants, who are both in contract years but will assuredly be cheaper to re-sign.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Puni needs big money in a couple of years? That\u2019s why Foerster brought in seventh-round pick Connor Colby and undrafted free agent Drew Moss (he seems to prefer the latter at this extremely early juncture) this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Brendel\u2019s grade starts slipping? Drake Nugent is waiting in the wings.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why the 49ers have faith in their offensive line \u2014 even if nobody else does (paywall)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not really football yet, as defensive end Nick Bosa pointed out on Wednesday. The San Francisco 49ers players are wearing helmets for the offseason workouts, but there are no pads, and there is limited contact.<\/p>\n<p>But every now and then you hear a coach get after a player, so there is important work being done. Last week, when offensive line coach Chris Foerster started yelling at backup tackle Austen Pleasants and rookie guard Connor Colby after a drill, it was music to coach Kyle Shanahan\u2019s ears.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Foerster and Shanahan have been together for a decade now, the last six years with the 49ers, and they like this offensive line group, no matter if the outside world thinks it will hold up. And when Foerster yells at a player, it\u2019s a sign he thinks he has someone who can play on Sundays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from ninersnation.com:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your daily San Francisco 49ers news for Saturday, June 7th, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":60103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2157,2155,1269,1712,2158,256,2154,2156,12,2159],"class_list":["post-60102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl","tag-austen-pleasants","tag-chris-foerster","tag-colton-mckivitz","tag-connor-colby","tag-drake-nugent","tag-nick-bosa","tag-offensive-line","tag-sam-darnold","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-will-levis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Golden Nuggets: This summer will be critical for the offensive line - 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