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Due to all the effort put into finding the best possible incoming footballers every April, one question cannot be resolved until the player arrives for work: Will he get it?
49ers receiver Brandon Aiyuk, a first-round pick in 2020, apparently does.
“Today was the first full-speed practice and I thought he did a pretty good job today,” coach Kyle Shanahan told reporters on Saturday. ‘We’ll see when we watch the movie, but I’m wonderfully impressed with him, just around him. He was very impressive at the Zoom meetings. Just his attention to detail. But, since we’re here, just going through these walkthroughs and things, you can tell he knows how to practice like a pro. You can tell he comes prepared every day. He’s not a guy you should have taught him how to act or learn how important it is to learn this game. You can tell that he understood that before he came here, and because we’re around him, you can tell that he worked and that’s the reason he’s gone, I think, there would be a lot of rookies right now to be. “
Shanahan said both of his team’s first runners – Aiyuk and defensive lineman Javon Kinlaw – have checked the boxes when it comes to knowing how to act at the next level.
‘If you’re guys like Kinlaw and Aiyuk and the players probably expect to tell them,’ Hey, then you need to tackle it a little bit. This is not a college. “If you guys don’t have to tell me like that, it’s impressive,” said Shanahan. ‘They work straight away, so they look like a pro, but today was the first practice. We have a long way to go. The key will keep it up. ”
Yes it will. But it’s better to be ahead of the game than behind this at this point, and Aiyuk is ahead of the game.
