Where do 49ers stand a week before 2025 NFL Scouting Combine?

49ers Talk: A San Francisco 49ers Podcast

For restless football fans, NFL Scouting Combine week is their much-needed plunge back into league action. For NFL front offices, it's the event that starts to shape or reshape their organizations. Matt Maiocco and Jennifer Lee Chan provide you with everything you need to know about the event, which begins next week in Indianapolis. The annual invite-only gathering helps teams evaluate the year's top draft-eligible players. Matt and Jennifer analyze what direction the 49ers, armed with a bevy of picks and numerous roster holes to fill, will go in the draft along with other draft expert's insights. Also, Matt and Jennifer discuss the precipitous fall fan-favorite Deebo Samuel has experienced as well as which under-the-radar free agents the 49ers should lock up. Finally, they discuss other noticeable roster moves the 49ers have made so far.

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(2:00) NFL Scouting Combine is where front office offseason priorities take shape
(7:00) Why is combine held in Indianapolis rather than other big cities around country?
(10:00) What days and exams matter most in team evaluations of players?
(13:00) Interesting 49ers' draft evaluations over the years
(15:00) Mock Draft Season – Who do national draft experts have 49ers picking at No. 11?
(25:00) Criticism of Deebo Samuel has grown exponentially since trade request, deal seems inevitable
(31:00) Reaction to LB Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles' release and which free agents should be retained