MIAMI — Raheem Mostert hasn’t committed the dates to memory. The 49ers running back prefers it that way. When he opens up the Notes app on his cell phone, he wants to be stung by reading the dates on which he was cut by six different NFL teams — the same way he was hurt the moment they happened.
So, no, he doesn’t remember Nov. 24, 2016 — the day the Bears cut him.
But he doesn’t want to forget it, either.
“I’ve been an underdog all my life,” he said Wednesday. “For me, anything at that point that I felt like was negative, I turned it positive, and used it as fuel.