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You'll never guess who was comically open on 4th down of the 49ers' failed comeback

Of course, the person wide open on the final play of the 49ers' failed fourth quarter comeback last Sunday was Dante Pettis.

Maligned for much of 2019 after coming into the year as the team's presumptive No. 1 wideout, Pettis was a healthy scratch from the Super Bowl. Head coach Kyle Shanahan went as far as to say he wanted the 2018 second-round draft pick to go on "a mission" in the offseason following the Niners' Super Bowl loss to try and figure things out.

The Dante Pettis hype train was back in the station ahead of last week's season opener against the Cardinals, with myriad preview stories saying he'd used the Super Bowl snub as fuel and he'd "found himself.