San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan said Wednesday the Niners looked into trading for quarterback Matthew Stafford before the Los Angeles Rams landed him from the Detroit Lions this offseason.
On The Ringer's Flying Coach podcast with Rams head coach Sean McVay and NFL Network's Peter Schrager (h/t NFL.com's Kevin Patra), Shanahan recalled watching tape on Stafford in anticipation of a trade:
"You don't want to get me started, dude. That was frustrating. I was in Cabo. I was studying it all. ... I remember looking through it because everybody was telling me it was a possibility.