The Athlon Sports 2023 Fantasy Football Annual magazine reached out to team insiders at all 32 NFL clubs to ask them three key fantasy questions heading into the season. As we count down to training camp, Sports Illustrated will publish their answers here. Today’s team: San Francisco 49ers
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Does the team plan to use Deebo Samuel less as a rusher with Christian McCaffrey on the roster? Based on what happened after the 49ers traded for McCaffrey last year, the answer is yes. Samuel averaged 3.
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After clinching another AFC North crown, Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow made a bold statement: “The window is my whole career.”
That memorable quote, obviously, generated headlines partly because Super Bowl windows close quickly in the NFL, a grueling league with unstable rosters and brief careers. But not many had issues with Burrow’s confidence.
Three years into his pro career, he’s already an established elite quarterback, and a proven winner by taking the Bengals to a Super Bowl and back-to-back AFC championship game appearances.
Welcome to 32 teams in 32 days. To get us through the offseason, we’ll be taking a closer look at every team in the league, in order of projected 2023 win totals. Up next: the 49ers.
Kyle Shanahan’s era in San Francisco has been both successful and entirely frustrating.
Over the past four seasons, the 49ers have reached the NFC championship game three times. In the first, they smashed Aaron Rodgers and the Packers before blowing a 20–10 lead to the Chiefs in the final seven minutes of Super Bowl LIV.
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Ahead of the 2023 American Century Championship, defending champ Tony Romo pointed out why Steph Curry might just be the favorite.
This week some of the best celebrity golfers are in Lake Tahoe, NV, for the American Century Championship at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course.
The event is entering its 34th year, and NBC Sports will broadcast the tournament.
American Century Investments raises money for national and local charities as they distribute their $600,000 purse, per the tournament’s website.
Northwestern reportedly has tapped David Braun as the team’s interim coach.
The Wildcats have been consumed by chaos after former head coach Pat Fitzgerald was fired following allegations of hazing within the program. Some of the hazing allegations were hazing in nature.
Now, the program has decided to elevate Braun to interim head coach for the 2023 season, according to Pete Thamel.
Sources: David Braun has been elevated to Northwestern’s interim head coach for the 2023 season.
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) July 13, 2023
Northwestern is in a terrible situation.
Since Alcaraz lost to Djokovic at the French Open, the 20-year-old has spent his time as a student of the sport — and his improvement has been astonishing.
A’ja Wilson and Aliyah Boston, who had legendary careers at South Carolina, will start the WNBA All-Star Game together with pride in where they came from.
Less than four years later — and with a second South Carolina natty on the shelf from Boston’s tenure — the duo will start the 2023 WNBA All-Star Game together as two of the most well-known and high-caliber players in the league.
Penny Hardaway has a new veteran in his backcourt.
Former NFL quarterback Philip Rivers had a prolific 17-year career on the gridiron, and now, he’ll have yet another child with a shot to follow in his footsteps.
Rivers announced on Thursday that he and his wife Tiffany are expecting their 10th child together, via AL.com.
The Rivers family currently consists of nine kids (seven daughters and two sons) ranging from four years old to 21. The newest addition to the ever-growing progeny of the eight-time Pro Bowler will be a boy, Rodgers said.
“We are all fired up,” Rivers said, via AL.com. “Everyone was pulling for a boy.