San Francisco coach Kyle Shanahan and general manager John Lynch said all the right things after they traded Trey Lance, the quarterback they gave up three first round picks and a second to select him with the third pick in 2021.
“I always feel like I let Trey down,” Shanahan said. I always believed in Trey.”
“We took a shot and it didn’t work out,” Lynch said. “We are accountable for that.”
Well, they have proved that talk is cheap.
You just don’t give up four high picks for a quarterback and get rid of him after he was injured two years in a row and started only four games.
We still don’t know if Lance will be a bust. He is now in Dallas as the third stringer and who knows what his future will be.
Meanwhile, the 49ers will go forward without those four high draft picks they gave up for Lance. The amazing thing is that they built a contender without them and found Brock Purdy in the seventh round to be their quarterback.
But they haven’t gotten a ring yet despite three trips to the NFC title game and a Super Bowl appearance in the last four years.
If they don’t get a ring, their legacy will likely be making one of the worst draft trades ever.