With the 2025 NFL Draft just weeks away, Pro Football Focus (PFF) contributor Bradley Locker revisited last year's draft, ranking the top rookie classes from 2024.
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy earned $985,000 in base salary last season. He nearly doubled that income thanks to the NFL's performance-based bonuses.
The 49ers need to drastically improve their offensive line this offseason, and the fact that they found Dominick Puni in Round 3 last year should give them confidence that they can draft another quality starter.
How many of the first running backs selected in the NFL Draft since the year 2000 can you name in five minutes?
The 49ers need to overhaul their offensive line. Trent Williams is old, Colton McKivitz is subpar, Jake Brendel is old and subpar and Aaron Banks is a free agent.
With an established top tier and some young options revealing themselves last season, here is a look at where clubs' QB depth charts stand. Contracts and long-term outlooks do not factor in here; these rankings apply only to 2025 on-field capabilities.
Kevin Patra of NFL.com recently spotlighted one overlooked or surprising contributor from each NFC team. For the San Francisco 49ers, that player was rookie offensive lineman Dominick Puni, the surprising third-round draft pick who started all 17 games during the 2024 season.
Rookie offensive lineman Dominick Puni was the first rookie to standout on the San Francisco 49ers. He made the most of his opportunities to take the starting right guard spot.
The 2024 season was a major disappointment for the San Francisco 49ers. Plagued by injuries, the team stumbled to a 6-11 finish. However, the adversity provided opportunities for several rookies to gain valuable experience in their first NFL season.
It was a tough year for 49ers fans, no doubt. From Super Bowl favorites to missing the playoffs, the fall was dramatic and ugly. For a lot of fans, the question is why?
The most overly-criticized position group on the 49ers is their offensive line. It isn't great by any means, but it also isn't bad. In fact, it's above average according to Pro Football Focus which ranks the 49ers offensive line 13th among 32 NFL teams.
The 49ers hit a home run with their third-round pick this season. Dominick Puni seems like he will be the 49ers' starting right guard for quite a long time.
Offensive line coach Chris Foerster was asked about rookie Dominick Puni on Thursday. Here's what Foerster said, courtesy of the 49ers' p.r. department.
Hands down, the 49ers' best rookie this season has been Dominick Puni. They took him in Round 3 and he wasn't supposed to start right away. But in training camp, both Jon Feliciano and Spencer Burford got injured, which created an opening at right guard, a position Puni never had played before.
The 49ers keep losing key players to injuries. The latest one who could miss time is rookie right guard Dominick Puni. He didn't miss any snaps in the 49ers' 38-10 loss to the Packers, but apparently he suffered a shoulder injury that required an MRI on Monday according to head coach Kyle Shanahan.
It's hard to say why the 49ers are just 5-5 right now. Despite all the injuries they've had this season, their roster is still one of the best in the NFL.
Jackson Powers-Johnson, Brandon Coleman, Isaiah Adams, Cooper Beebe, Christian Haynes, and Zak Zinter. These were the six guards taken ahead of Dominick Puni.
2024 has been an amazing year for the rookies of the San Francisco 49ers. Usually, rookies or young players aren't given opportunities like this. But injuries and some underwhelming performances have opened things up.
Offensive line play can be difficult to evaluate, but there is no doubt in anyone's mind that San Francisco 49ers rookie guard Dominick Puni is enjoying an excellent start to the season.
Kansas football fans knew all about the potential of Dominick Puni, the All-Big 12 offensive lineman who spent two years in Lawrence after transferring from Central Missouri.
Until the San Francisco 49ers' resolve their contract situations with WR Brandon Aiyuk and left tackle Trent Williams, their offense will be in a state of flux.
Here are three decisions the 49ers might have to make before the start of the regular season that might help them get there.
Dominick Puni, a third-round draft pick by the San Francisco 49ers, has received more practice reps than expected due to a combination of injuries and the holdout of the team's best offensive lineman, Trent Williams.
Matt Barrows of The Athletic dove into the plan for rookie third-round guard Dominick Puni going forward.
The San Francisco 49ers have plenty of options at right guard.
More than two months before training camps open, teams are already getting a good look at rookies in mini-camps and envisioning the roles they may play for the 2024 season. Here's a look at a rookie on each NFC team that could unseat a veteran in the starting lineup.
The 49ers have traded up the third-round order, swapping places with the Eagles. San Francisco has dealt Nos. 94 and 132 to Philadelphia in exchange for the 86th pick.
When it comes to potential rookie centers that the Pittsburgh Steelers could target, the same four names come up: Jackson Powers-Johnson, Graham Barton, Zach Frazier, and Sedrick Van Pran.
College: Kansas College Position: OG / OT Ideal NFL Position: OG / OT Height/Weight: 6’5", 320 pounds Year / Age: Graduate / 23 (turns 24 in February 2025) Draft Projection: Top 100 Where I’d Take Him: Top 125 Coming out of Francis Howell High School in Saint Charles, Missouri, Dominick Puni was underrecruited, with no rating on 247Sports.
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