Everybody wants to know what the San Francisco 49ers think of their third-round pick, Dominick Puni, and his expectations for heading into his rookie season. Puni figures to compete with Spencer Burford—the most talented yet inconsistent right guard.
Puni was running with the second team at right guard early in OTAs. But that doesn’t mean he’ll be relegated to backup duty all season. Offensive line coach Chris Foerster explained what he liked about Puni coming out of the draft and compared and contrasted him to the Niners’ starting left guard, Aaron Banks:
“You didn’t see a lot on tape that was what we do.