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Nick Mullens opens up about upcoming competition at quarterback with C.J. Beathard

Monday kicks off OTA’s for the San Francisco 49ers. Monday will mark the first of 10-day practice period where no live contact is permitted, but 7-on-7, 9-on-7, and 11-on-11 drills are allowed. There will be plenty of players trying to carve out their role on the team in 2019. For Nick Mullens, he will try to maintain the role of a backup quarterback.

In 2018, Mullens was thrown into the starting lineup after C.J. Beathard was injured. It’s not often you can be productive on offense when your third-string quarterback is playing a substantial amount of snaps.