Quinton Patton and Vance McDonald have long been maligned figures in the 49ers offense, but they are making their case for contract extensions.
For a long time, Quinton Patton and Vance McDonald have been regarded as two of more emphatic failures of a 49ers’ 2013 draft class that has yielded mixed returns.
Having spent much of their respective careers failing to produce, contract extensions for the pair – who are both free agents in 2017 – would not have been seen as priorities for the Niners’ front office at the start of the year.