On the heels of sending Trey Lance to the Cowboys following a tumultuous two years, 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan offered a candid admission on Thursday regarding the club’s feelings on the quarterback’s brief tenure.
Appearing on KNBR 680’s Tolbert & Ratto, Shanahan discussed the ambitious trade that set the Niners up to draft Lance with the No. 3 pick in 2021, saying the move was “definitely a mistake” for both parties based on how things went. He also chalked the deal up as one the team “needed” to make, given the lack of available veteran free-agent QBs.
“When you move up and it doesn’t work out, that’s definitely a mistake,” Shanahan said. “But we did like our decisions when we looked into the two veterans that were available, and we didn’t get that and we knew what way we were going to have to go two years from then. We knew we needed to go up and get a quarterback at that time.”
