Golden Nuggets: Pondering Ponder

Why should Christian Ponder get a chance to play?

Most of the “know it alls” around Niners Nation, including myself, are already pretty convinced he will not be any better than our other two quarterbacks. In fact, we are pretty sure he will be worse. He looked pretty decent in the preseason against second and third string competition but that does not mean much when it comes to playing against another team’s finest players.

Christian Ponder is 6’-2”, weighs around 230 pounds and is twenty eight years old. He played his college football at Florida State where he had a 61.8% completion rate for 6,872 yards and 49 TDs with 30 interceptions.

Ponder was drafted as the 12th pick in the first round…