He appeared in 12 games while starting in seven of them. #49ers injury updates: Breida, Celek and Pettis are all OUT for the remainder of today's game.
In an article he wrote for the Players’ Tribune in 2018, he said those other passions provided a healthy life balance.“It was an accumulation of stuff,” Shanahan said.“I think Dante did that more his rookie year, trying to make the league,” Shanahan said. But the 49ers have emphasized Pettis’ development as a wide receiver. He started in only four games, played in 11 and was targeted 24 times. ... which made everything that happened in 2019 so bizarre. There’s a reason he went in the second round of the NFL Draft. The 49ers lost Emmanuel Sanders to free agency and now sport a depth chart of Kendrick Bourne, Brandon Aiyuk, Jalen Hurd and Dante Pettis.
44 overall pick because they prized his versatility. We'll never pass along your email address to spammers, scammers, or the like.Your favorite teams, topics, and players all on your favorite mobile devices.These are pretty decent numbers, especially when your team is missing its starting quarterback.Was Pettis’ lack of production due to the team going out and getting Sanders? I'd understand if it was a new FO regime or a new coach, but it's still the same folks who drafted him in the 2nd last year and the same coach under whom he flashed late last season. It’s his decision. Austin Pettis, Dante’s cousin, played four seasons in the NFL, mostly for the St. Louis Rams. Dante Pettis was set to return punts on Monday night, but the 49ers changed their plan and decided to have Richie James active in place of cornerback Ahkello Witherspoon, who was deemed not ready to return. Pettis was known as the nation's best punt return man but there was much more to his game than just that. Former Washington receiver Dante Pettis is going all out, on and off the field, during his impressive training camp debut with the 49ers. “And I think he took a documented step back in his second year, which I’ve been around a lot of players that have done that.
He’s a fairly big body when he goes up for the ball.
That’s what everyone kind of echoed. Many moons ago, before the 2019 NFL, I wrote about how Dante Pettis had “won” free agency after the San Francisco 49ers took limited steps to address the wide receiver spot. Dante Pettis has a lot of upside to him.
Since he began his career in journalism in 1997 in Logansport, Ind., he’s covered events ranging from archery tournaments to the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. His campaign was capped fittingly: He was inactive, despite not having an injury, for Super Bowl LIV.Pettis’ interests beyond football include photography and writing. Join the Golden Gate Sports team!Powered by Minute Media © 2020 All Rights Reserved.Your privacy is safe with us.
Plays like the ones above could be part of the selling point San Francisco describes in any would-be trade proposal for the wide receiver. If anything, the Niners would want to “sell high” even though they’d likely not be able to recoup the second-round pick given up for Pettis back in the 2018 NFL Draft.And as Shanahan has made clear, getting out of his proverbial “doghouse” isn’t an easy thing to do.A third- or fourth-round pick in return, though, would likely suffice.Breida was shipped off to the Miami Dolphins in exchange for a fifth-round pick, which the Niners subsequently used on West Virginia offensive lineman Colton McKivitz, while Goodwin was part of a sixth-round pick swap with the Philadelphia Eagles.ESPN’s Bill Barnwell put together a post-2020 NFL Draft piece highlighting each team’s most likely candidate to be moved now the draft is complete. Kyler Pettis, Dante’s brother, is an Emmy award-winning actor.
Last year’s impressive second-round pick, Deebo Samuel, would clearly headline the position group in 2020, if Sanders exits.At the NFL combine, Shanahan was asked if that drop was the final straw that prompted him to banish Pettis to the bench.Twelve months later, it’s not hard to envision him being erased from the roster before the 2020 season opener.