49ers make first 5 cuts

by David Fucillo on Aug 23, 2008 5:18 PM PDT in San Francisco 49ers News

Apologies for not having this up earlier. I'll be posting more in the coming week, but I scored an invite to a closed 49ers practice today and have all sorts of stuff to pass along (including a brief interview with GM Scot McCloughan). I'm actually in Mountain View waiting for Cal Train back to San Francisco and taking advantage of the free WiFi Google hooked up in Mountain View.

For now, the 49ers have cut second-year DT Joe Cohen, first-year TE Cooper Wallace, rookie S Lewis Baker, rookie QB Kyle Wright and rookie G John Booker.

I had thought they needed 6 cuts but Scot (yes we're clearly on a first name basis now) said that Ramiro Pruneda, from the International Practice Squad program, does not count against any of the roster limits, be it 53-man, 75-man or 8-man practice squad.

Joe Cohen is the only somewhat surprising cut, but he has never seemed to figure things out since the 49ers drafted him. He spent last season on IR and just never bounced back. Maybe they'll try and slip him to the practice squad.

Lewis Baker is another practice squad candidate. The PR person who was assigned to me today said the team was really high on him, but the thigh bruise he suffered was pretty bad. We'll see what comes of that.

As I said, I'll have plenty of details in the upcoming week. I got some pictures of the facility, but actually couldn't take any pictures of practice. They're in the midst of implementing the game plan for San Diego, so they don't want that ending up on the Internet.

Trains here so I'll have more tomorrow morning.

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Cohen was a lost cause from the start

I still haven’t gotten over the debacle that was the 4th round of the 2007 draft. Sure, we got a couple of prospects that are still worth working into the system, but trading the highest of our 4th round picks was the first sign that we were not going to use those picks well. The Cohen pick was STUPID. Name another NFL team that was itching to take a senior, undersized tweener DL who wasn’t a starter.

So don’t waste effort lamenting his being cut. It was long overdue.

by Odquest on Aug 24, 2008 4:12 PM PDT reply actions

Harsh

I think that’s a little harsh. I think he’d fit in pretty okay in a 4-3, but he definitely had no place on a team that was looking to go to a 3-4 (almost) full time.

by sfgfan on Aug 24, 2008 10:41 PM PDT up reply actions