SANTA CLARA -- On October 2013, Louis Riddick was interviewed in a story that polled NFL personnel experts on who they'd choose as their starting quarterback: Alex Smith or Colin Kaepernick.
Riddick, whom the 49ers will talk to Tuesday for their vacant general manager post, went with the popular choice.
"With Colin, I think you get the intelligence and ability to handle volume as far as the amount you can put on him mentally that gives you a lot of options week to week game-plan wise as well, with the difference being that he is willing to take more chances at pushing the ball vertically down the field, and not being so quick to simply take sacks or take off every time the read isn't clean initially," he said in the ESPN story.