SANTA CLARA – No Jerick McKinnon, again. No more waiting for Joshua Garnett. No breaking up the receiver corps for Jordan Matthews. And no quarterback getting trading.
Saturday’s unveiling of the 49ers’ initial 53-man roster offered a few surprises, and more could be coming as they stand No. 2 in the waiver-wire queue.
“We’ll be sitting around here, waiting for that (waiver list) to come and see who’s out there,” general manager John Lynch said on a media conference call, underscoring how fluid rosters always are in the NFL.
Let’s explain who got past the bouncer Saturday and into, as we’ll call it, Club 53:
