The 49ers’ top-end talent should have them in a spot to at least be competitive for 17 games this year. Their depth is what’s going to wind up separating them from being a good team and a Super Bowl contender though.
We saw the importance of quality depth during their 2019 run, and figuring out that depth will be the single most important aspect of their preseason slate.
While running down our 53-man roster projection, there were a number of names that jumped out as right on the precipice of making the club. There’s an argument to be made that San Francisco’s roster bubble is somewhere around 25 players deep, but these were the ones that really stuck out while putting together a predicted final roster:
