I’ll be taking a couple of days off. I’ll be back on Tuesday. Please, pretend to like each other for a few days.
Brian Baldinger: Cue the commissioner: ”With the third pick in the 2021 NFL Draft, the San Francisco 49ers select Mac Jones, quarterback, Alabama.” No. 3 overall might be far higher up the board than Jones thought he’d be a few months ago, but Patrick Mahomes never thought he would be the 10th overall pick in 2017 either. If you look at Shanahan’s history — going back to working with Matt Schaub in Houston, Kirk Cousins in Washington, and Matt Ryan in Atlanta — his quarterbacks are all physically comparable to Jones.