Shanahan and Lynch, unplugged

John Lynch says Colton McKivitz can play tackle or guard.I focused mostly on Joe Staley’s retirement in today’s draft wrap. We’ll use up miles of bandwidth talking about Trent Williams over the next few weeks.

Right now, let’s get to some of the ancillary players the 49ers welcomed today. Here are portions of the official John Lynch / Kyle Shanahan transcript for this afternoon’s Zoom. Because the draft didn’t end after the third round.

Shanahan on the backup plan at offensive tackle:

“One thing that was really cool was if the Washington deal didn’t go through, one of our Plan Bs was to try to draft Colton [McKivitz] there in the fourth round, and then we made that risk to move that to go up…