NFL cutdown day sparked a new wave of moves across the league as teams scrambled to make the final roster cuts required to meet the league’s 53-man threshold. While front offices were agonizing over deciding which players to retain and which to cut loose, Kyle Shanahan ‘s San Francisco 49ers were one of the busiest teams retooling their 2025 roster.
Kyle Shanahan has worked with an egregious number of training camp injuries, making what was already a difficult roster construction process even tougher. The 49ers opened the preseason with gigantic question marks in several positions following their miss of the playoffs during the 2024 season and performing a full roster rebuild over the offseason. Shanahan even admitted the choices before him were “really complicated” and would involv