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How 49ers tried to get Bo Jackson to pair with Joe Montana, Jerry Rice

Could you have imagined a 49ers backfield with Bo Jackson joining Joe Montana and Roger Craig in an offense featuring Jerry Rice?

49ers director of scouting Tony Razzano once did. And after scouting Jackson at Auburn before the 1986 draft, Razzano came to correctly believe pairing Bo with the 49ers’ offensive weapons would be, in a word, “awesome.”

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After scouting Bo in five college games, Razzano declared him the best player he’d ever seen. In a recently unearthed copy of his old scouting report on Bo, one that included Bo’s unreal 40-yard dash time of 4.