The 49ers face more difficult roster decisions with better players this week after general manager John Lynch and coach Kyle Shanahan have devoted two offseasons to bringing in more talent.
“It’s a lot harder this year,” Shanahan said. “For the whole 90, usually you get to this time, as a coach, and there’s a number of people at each position that you’ve been waiting to move on from because the writing has been on the wall for a while.
“But it’s not like that here. We’re going to cut a lot of guys, to me, who are NFL players.