Pay no attention to the quarterback behind the curtain.
In fact, pay minimal attention to the quarterback position, period.
Here’s the blunt situation that followers of the 49ers must grasp: At this point in the team’s reconstruction, with so much heavy lifting to do, it doesn’t matter who the quarterback is.
All right, so it matters some. But the point is, whichever human being lines up at quarterback in the 2017 season for the Scarlet Heroes of Yore, he and the team are going to lose many games. Mediocrity will be the baseline goal.
Thus, as the 49ers plow through this free agent period and the draft, it’s far more important what happens with the rest of the roster around the quarterback.