According to Jimmy Kempski of the Philly Voice, the San Francisco 49ers were the NFL’s 11th-oldest team in 2014. Many of San Francisco’s starters had played together for four or five seasons.
Now, the Niners are the eighth-youngest team in the league, and a lot of their starters are playing together for the first time. General manager Trent Baalke is rebuilding the roster around the draft picks he made the past three years and banking on those picks to produce.
Has Baalke drafted shrewdly since 2013? Here are five young 49ers who are either helping or hurting Baalke’s youth movement.