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From scout to GM? Here's how 49ers' Salli Clavelle got into the NFL and where she wants to go.

Her intention had been set for years. The dream devised before she was even a teenager.

In Salli Clavelle’s mind, since the tender age of 8, football was always the destination.

And her ultimate goal was rooted in a desire to follow her passion and shake up the status quo in the process.

“She wants to be a GM,” San Francisco 49ers general manager John Lynch said with a smile, as he recounted his first impressions of Clavelle when she interviewed for one of the team’s scouting assistant positions in 2018.

49ers pro personnel analyst Salli Clavelle: "I always tell women, you can do whatever you want.