The San Francisco 49ers won’t let quarterback Nick Mullens leave the team anytime soon.
According to NBC Sports, The Athletic’s Michael Lombardi said during an appearance on The GM Shuffle podcast that multiple teams had made offers for Jimmy Garoppolo’s backup, but the team wasn’t having it.
“They were asking about him, and they turned down every trade offer for Nick Mullens. They wouldn’t trade him,” Lombardi explained about the unnamed potential partners. (RELATED: David Hookstead Is The True King In The North When It Comes To College Football)
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I’d be curious to see what the offers made for Mullens were. Teams usually aren’t super hellbent on keeping backup quarterbacks.
That’s especially true when your starter is entrenched and there’s no quarterback battle looming on the horizon. Yet, the 49ers clearly see something in Mullens they like a lot.
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We know Mullens can play at a reasonably high level. In 2018, he threw 13 touchdowns to 10 interceptions while playing for a banged up Jimmy G.
Is that super impressive? Not at all, but it’s not too bad for a young quarterback rushed into service when nobody thought he’d need to play anytime soon.
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Mullens is cheap, he’s shown a bit of potential and the 49ers have apparently seen enough to want him for the time being. Does this mean Jimmy G is in trouble of losing his job?
No chance in hell. It just means the 49ers want to see what else they can do with the young passer.