With Brian Gutekunst and Eliot Wolf—the two perceived front runners for the San Francisco 49ers general manager job—out, It leaves two candidates: the Arizona Cardinals’ Terry McDonough and the Minnesota Vikings’ George Paton.
McDonough has been tied to 49ers head coach front-runner Kyle Shanahan since getting announced, but Paton has flown a bit under the radar. Now with Wolf and Gutekunst being kept away from the 49ers, Paton may the new leading man.
Paton has a certain rapport with Atlanta Falcon’s head coach (and Kyle Shanahan’s current superior) Dan Quinn. Matt Maiocco brought up that Quinn was hoping to have Paton working with him when he took the Atlanta job and also made the point that both Shanahan and Paton were interviewed the same day two weeks ago.