When the San Francisco 49ers made a huge trade to move up to No. 3 in this year's NFL draft, the prevailing belief was that the team did so to select a quarterback. That put Jimmy Garoppolo's future in San Francisco in question.
But both general manager John Lynch and head coach Kyle Shanahan told reporters Monday that the plan is to draft a young quarterback and to keep Garoppolo:
Albert Breer49ers GM John Lynch: "We felt like we had a team that can compete. ... We went to ownership, said 'hey things are looking good, we want to make this (trade), but we don't want to say good bye to Jimmy.