December 14, 2024
49ers so as to add 2-time Tremendous Bowl champion to protection with playoff push in thoughts: report

The San Francisco 49ers have introduced in a veteran substitute at security, a place of want after shedding All-Professional Talanoa Hufanga and George Odom to season-ending accidents. 

Logan Ryan, a two-time Tremendous Bowl champion, has signed with the Niners to bolster their secondary, per NFL Media. 

Although particular phrases of the settlement weren’t disclosed, Ryan is on board for at the very least this playoff push the workforce hopes to make. 

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Logan Ryan #26 of the Tennessee Titans celebrates their 20-13 win over the New England Patriots within the AFC Wild Card Playoff sport at Gillette Stadium on January 04, 2020 in Foxborough, Massachusetts. (Kathryn Riley/Getty Photographs)

With Hufanga tearing his ACL in opposition to the Tampa Bay Buccaners and Odom tearing his biceps, Ryan’s arrival comes at an ideal time for the 49ers. 

They solidified the No. 1 seed within the NFC this previous Sunday after taking down the Philadelphia Eagles, the reigning NFC champions who beat San Fran again in January to make it to the Tremendous Bowl. 

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However clearly that seeding can change over the subsequent few weeks, which means San Fran wants all the assistance they will get, plugging up holes on the depth chart to make sure a powerful Tremendous Bowl roster is in place. 

Ryan, 32, has the playoff expertise that GM John Lynch can respect as a former security himself. Ryan received his Tremendous Bowls with the New England Patriots, the workforce he spent his first 4 NFL seasons with from 2013-2016. 

Logan Ryan runs off field

Logan Ryan #23 of the New York Giants reacts as he runs off the sphere after the Giants defeated the Washington Soccer Crew 23-20 at FedExField on November 08, 2020 in Landover, Maryland. (Patrick McDermott/Getty Photographs)

Ryan collected 13 interceptions, one returned for a landing, 2.5 sacks and 243 mixed tackles over 64 video games in New England previous to his time with the Tennessee Titans. He, then, moved on to the New York Giants for 2 seasons, beginning in 2020, earlier than final 12 months’s run with the Buccaneers. 

His versatility was a motive why each workforce he performed for cherished his manufacturing on the sphere. Whereas Ryan appears to flourish at security, he can play anyplace within the secondary, which can be a superb software within the bag for 49ers defensive coordinator Steve Wilks. 

Ryan has been within the sports activities media discipline since he hasn’t been on the sphere, with “Good Morning Soccer’s” Peter Schrager declaring that he was on the panel just a few weeks in the past. Nevertheless, he has been “steadfast” that he can nonetheless play at a excessive stage, and the 49ers will give him the possibility to take action on a workforce that sits as frontrunner for the NFC title. 

Logan Ryan awaits snap

Logan Ryan #26 of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defends throughout an NFL soccer sport between the San Francisco 49ers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Levi’s Stadium on December 11, 2022 in Santa Clara, California.  (Michael Owens/Getty Photographs)

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For his profession, Ryan has totaled 742 mixed tackles, 15 compelled fumbles, 19 interceptions, and 13 sacks over 149 video games.