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Could the 49ers have an NFL comeback player of the year?

No doubt one of the must-see things for 2019 is the return of 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo. He went down too early and in the most devastating fashion that many fans forgot that there were still 13 games left in the season to play. Garoppolo has yet to play a full NFL season, something that is a legitimate concern, but if he can get out of 2019 could he be the NFL’s comeback player of the year?

The folks over at Pro Football Focus put together a list of 10 candidates for the Comeback Player of the Year award and Jimmy Garoppolo made the list:

The trade for quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo brought about a revitalization of the San Francisco 49ers’ franchise, and it finally marked the end of the quarterback drought that had plagued them from 2013 to the latter stage of the 2017 season.