When the deep pass went up in San Francisco 49ers training camp last week, it had zip and was a nice spiral. This was the beginning and end of the good part of the play for quarterback Trey Lance. The rest was objectively bad — poor ball placement combined with the poor judgment of throwing into blanket 1-on-1 coverage. It felt like the likeliest outcome was going to be a broken up pass or interception, if only 49ers cornerback Samuel Womack would turn his head in time.
Instead, the ball zoomed in behind the nameplate on Womack’s back.