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Kyle Shanahan talks Eli Harold trade, 3rd TE competition, rookie impersonations

Can you go over the thinking behind the trade today?

“Oh, with [LB] Eli [Harold]? It was a tough decision, love Eli. It’s been great to get to know him over the last year. But as this week went, just looking into closer to how our final 53 is going to work out, I won’t say it was just about Eli, it has to do a lot with how we think we’re going to use people on game day, who’s going to be up between defensive linemen, outside linebackers, inside linebackers. All three of those positions kind of play together and we’ve got some numbers issues at certain spots.