Trent Williams #71 of the San Francisco 49ers (Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty Images)
While the 49ers aren’t necessarily old, per se, they do enter the 2021 season with the league’s second-oldest roster on average.
Age is just a number, right?
Well, perhaps. No other sport focuses more on age than pro football. And considering the short lifespan of NFL careers, usually hovering around 3.3 years, it makes sense why teams are always vying to get younger wherever possible.
On the surface, this doesn’t appear to apply to the San Francisco 49ers, who enter the upcoming 2021 campaign with the second-oldest roster in the entire league, according to Indianapolis Colts team writer Andrew Walker:
According to rosters on all 32 team websites, the #Colts currently are tied for the eighth-youngest roster in the NFL, with an average age of 24.