Taybor Pepper #46 of the San Francisco 49ers (Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images)
Not much love is given to long-snappers, but the 49ers’ Taybor Pepper certainly has endeared himself to Niners fans after joining the fray in 2020.
There might only be one or two articles dedicated to a long-snapper on any team for any given year.
By design, that’s a good thing. Long-snappers aren’t meant to be noticed, and the casual football fan might assume they’re centers in disguise, switching jersey numbers on field-goal attempts and extra-point tries.
If they are noticed, that’s usually bad.