The big story of this Niners season — as it should be, for a rebuilding team — is the rapid development of several promising young players, such as Nick Mullens, D. J. Reed, Dante Pettis, Fred Warner, Mike McGlinchey and Marcell Harris.
The latest player to emerge — and maybe one of the most important — is converted cornerback Tarvarius Moore, aka Tarvariusaurus Rex. He was a teammate of Mullens at Southern Mississippi, having grown up in tiny Quitman, MS (a town of 2,323 people hard on the state’s eastern border with Alabama).