• Sat. Dec 14th, 2024

What a signing: 49ers to Sign ‘Warrior’ Quarterback After NFL Draft

San Francisco 49ers’ head coach Kyle Shanahan speaks to the media after practice at training camp in Santa Clara, Calif., on Wednesday, July 26, 2023.

The San Francisco 49ers didn’t take a late-round quarterback this year, but the team will sign Wisconsin’s Tanner Mordecai after the draft as an undrafted free agent per ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler.

Wisconsin offensive coordinator Phil Longo called him a “warrior” and said that he made a big impression in one season with the Badgers. Mordecai, who also played for Oklahoma and SMU, will make it four quarterbacks on the 49ers roster now behind Brock Purdy, Joshua Dobbs, and Brandon Allen.

“I tell Tanner every day that I wish I had him for three or four years,” Longo told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in December 2023. “And I just appreciate him as a person, appreciate him for the warrior that he is. Coaches throw that word around a lot, but he is one of the toughest quarterbacks I’ve ever coached.”

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“From a mental standpoint and a physical standpoint. He’s been that way since the day he got here. It’s 100% who and what he is. That’s what we were looking for in our quarterback and we got it. The only regret I have is that he was injured,” Longo added.

Because Mordecai injured his hand, he only threw for 2,006 yards and nine touchdowns versus four interceptions in 2023. He also garnered 304 yards rushing and four touchdowns.

Mordecai can compete at camp and possibly make the practice squad unless he impresses the 49ers coaching staff enough to leapfrog Allen or Dobbs. The 49ers had a similar thing happen before on final day of the 2022 draft when the team took Purdy with the final pick.


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