The 49ers are the latest team to announce their undrafted free agent class. Here are the 12 signees now on San Francisco’s 90-man roster:
- RB Ronald Awatt (UTEP)
- FB Jack Colletto (Oregon State)
- OL Joey Fisher (Shepherd)
- CB D’Shawn Jamison (Texas)
- RB Khalan Laborn (Marshall)
- OL Corey Luciano (Washington)
- OL Ilm Manning (Hawaii)
- LB Mariano Sori-Marin (Minnesota)
- DL Spencer Waege (North Dakota State)
- WR Isaiah Winstead (East Carolina)
- WR Shae Wyatt (Tulane)
- S Avery Young (Rutgers)
The 49ers signed Winstead not long after he tweeted no team had extended him a UDFA offer or invited him to a rookie minicamp. After transferring from Toledo, Winstead posted a 1,085-yard season at East Carolina last year. That total more than doubled the 6-foot-3 receiver’s previous single-season best mark. He will attempt to stick with the 49ers. While the NFL has not revealed if the 16-man practice squad limit will remain in place for a fourth season, it represents a good bet teams will still have 69 spots (53 active roster, 16 P-squad) to use in 2023.
Fisher received a $130K guarantee to sign, Aaron Wilson of KPRC2 tweets. The 6-foot-4 lineman lined up at right tackle at Division II Shepherd from 2019-22, earning All-American acclaim. He also impressed at his pro day, performing 40 bench-press reps of 225 pounds. That bettered this year’s top O-lineman Combine mark (38). Fisher is also coming off a broken hand sustained during the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl.
A Florida State transfer, Laborn is coming off a 1,513-yard rushing season at Marshall. Manning made a whopping 60 starts at Hawaii. Working as a tackle, Manning earned first-team All-Mountain West Conference honors last season. Young started 54 games for the Scarlet Knights; Jamison made 40 starts for the Longhorns. Spencer finished last season as a first-team Division I-FCS All-American, tallying nine sacks, 17.5 tackles for loss and two forced fumbles for the FCS powerhouse program.
Awatt and Laborn join a 49ers team that did not draft a running back but still carries their top backups — Elijah Mitchell, Jordan Mason and Tyrion Davis-Price — from last season. Christian McCaffrey‘s Panthers-constructed extension runs through 2025.
Every member of San Francisco’s UDFA class was born in the 1990s. Teams’ UDFA classes are flooded with players who used the additional eligibility year that came about because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but five members of this contingent will be at least 25 by year’s end. Awatt and Fisher will turn 26 as rookies.
Kinda have no choice when you donk off all your draft capital. After giving up draft capital to acquire Jimmy G THEN give up a FU** ton more draft capital to replace him with some unproven bust from North Baked Potato St THEN you’re trying to trade him for pennies on the dollar…. you end up having to sign a bunch of UDFAs meanwhile you’re giving the keys to Sam F’n Darnold while supposedly being in a “window of contention”. Draft Mahomes or Fields and this team is fresh off a parade but unfortunately Lynch/Shanahan couldn’t scout QB talent unless their life depended on it. Only a meatball homer would clap back with Flash in the Pan Mr. Irrelevant Purdy being the savior IF he can even come back close to the same after his elbow fell off.
Well Bryzzo this meatball homer thinks that loud popping sound we’ll hear is when you pull your pin head out of your stupid a**.
AGREED
Agreed..lol
Good lord, I gave up trying to read that incoherent babbling about three lines in.
What a moron, it is no wonder he’s so unhappy.
Your take is GARBAGE! I don’t think anyone likes the QB trade up but hold your horses on the rest of your comment. Where’d you play ball? Thumb warriors have no spine
Still waiting on the dolphins list of UDFA. Please and thank you. I could look elsewhere but I prefer this app and the contributors!
Winstead can play. Saw him a bunch last season.
I’m excited to see what Joey Fisher can do in camp. He is as strong as they come. Might just need to work on his quickness.