The reports were accurate.
During a podcast last offseason, Mike Silver and Colin Cowherd discussed how they’d heard about 49ers quarterback Trey Lance suffered from arm fatigue during his rookie season.
Thursday morning Lance joined quarterback coach Quincy Avery for an interview. Lance has worked with Avery in the offseason dating back to 2020 when COVID wiped out his final season at North Dakota State. The issue of arm fatigue was one of the topics discussed.
“Yeah, it was just honestly, I don’t know,” Lance said to Avery. “If there’s someone out there at quarterback throwing that much, I mean, it was just, realistically, going back to COVID, and then I started throwing in May because I was rehabbing my hip.