As a means to alleviate potential injuries to the incoming rookie class, the San Francisco 49ers are taking a unique, conservative approach to their NFL introductions.
As Matt Barrows of The Sacramento Bee points out, the 49ers are the only NFL team that is beginning its rookie minicamp on Saturday this weekend. The rest of the teams are starting their camps out earlier, which is the traditional approach.
“What we try to do is minimize the exposure to heavy training early on, try to get them into an acclimation period because we understand that a lot of them haven’t been doing a lot for the last month, month and a half,” general manager Trent Baalke told Bruce Murray and Rich Gannon on SiriusXM NFL Radio earlier this week.