SANTA CLARA — Jimmy Garoppolo made his 49ers practice debut Wednesday wearing almost the same black-jersey, black-short, white-cleats attire as fellow quarterback C.J. Beathard. The glaring exception: a play-sheet on his Garoppolo’s left wristband.
Garoppolo is cramming like crazy to learn coach Kyle Shanahan’s offense, starting with an iPad study on his cross-country flight Tuesday after his trade from the New England Patriots.
Shanahan and quarterbacks coach Rich Scangarello are getting Garoppolo up to speed in case he can be C.