The start of each offseason brings optimism for the future and assessments of what the San Francisco 49ers need to do in free agency and the draft to take the next step. Each February, ESPN’s Bill Barnwell breaks down five moves each team needs to make in the coming months.
He has not released his 2019 series yet, but now seemed as good a time as any to take a look back at what Barnwell said the 49ers should consider a year ago. It was the second offseason for Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch, and a week prior to Barnwell’s article publishing, the 49ers signed Jimmy Garoppolo to a contract extension.