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49ers young players to watch moving forward

Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports

Considering where the season is going, we're making the case for young players to get their shot with an eye toward the future.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Good luck finding anyone at 49ers' headquarters willing to admit it might be time to start giving young players more playing time with the playoffs getting further and further out of reach.

At 1-4, San Francisco is dangerously close to reaching the point of 2015 officially turning into a "rebuilding" year, rather than a "reload situation" as general manager Trent Baalke termed it after the team parted with Jim Harbaugh last December.