John Lynch explains why 49ers stayed quiet at trade deadline
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Williams isn't the only 49er destined for the Hall of Fame who could have ended up in Los Angeles. In 2022, San Francisco general manager John Lynch detailed how he won a "a 49ers-Rams tug-of-war" in getting star running back Christian McCaffrey from Carolina.
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In case you forgot, 49ers president of football operations and general manager John Lynch knows a thing or two about baseball. The Pro Football Hall of Famer initially was a minor-league pitcher after the then-Florida Marlins selected him in the second round of the 1992 MLB Draft out of Stanford.