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49ers Top 10 NFL Draft Successes: No. 2 - Merton Hanks, Free Safety
I was tempted to rank Patrick Willis second on this list, but this next guy did enough over the course of his career to get the higher spot. When you get All Pro selections from a fifth round pick, and that guy will go down as one of the better safeties in franchise history, I'd say that qualifies...
Niners Nation Google Search of the Day: Merton Hanks neck
As the grand poo-bah of Niners Nation, I have access to a variety of site traffic tracking tools. Aside from numbers, I can see what people are searching through search engines to get to our site. For the most part, people primarily search for terms we'd all expect, like the team name or an...
49ers Year-by-Year: 2000
After a relatively long hiatus, the Year-by-Feature is back with a vengeance. It has been a while since I've been able to give you one of these and it might be a few more weeks before I can give you another, but I wanted to strike while I had a little free time from the holiday season and my own...
49ers Year-by-Year: 1999
1999 wasn't the beginning of the end for the 49ers' storied dynasty. It was an affirmation of the end. With the loss of Steve Young and the continued absence of Garrison Hearst, the San Francisco 49ers discovered that their talent had diminished to the point where success was unsustainable. But as...
49ers Year-by-Year: 1997
Welcome to the 1997 edition of the 49ers Year-by-Year. Many probably remember this as the season that Warren Sapp took down Steve Young and Jerry Rice in one game, but the rest of the season was - for the most part - a true triumph for the aging, evolving 49ers franchise. Do you know know what...
49ers Year-by-Year: 1995
After two weeks off for a variety of reasons (most of which involved needing to devote my time to studying for my first test in more than two years), the Year-by-Year makes a triumphant return. 1995 was one of those awesome, sucky seasons. If you love reading about when the team was really, really...
49ers Year-by-Year: 1993
So, after a weeklong vacation and then a week long of ridiculously unreliable access to the internet, I - along with my Year-by-Year series - am back with a vengeance. This week we tackle the 1993 season (you see what I did there?), which was the team's first true season without Joe Montana. After...
49ers Year-by-Year: 1992
This is a brief retelling of the San Francisco 49ers' 1992 season. With everybody waiting anxiously for Joe Montana's return, how would the team respond to a second straight season without their starting quarterback? Could the 49ers return to the playoffs and how would they fare if they got there?...
49ers Year-by-Year: 1991
In this week's installment of 49ers Year-by-Year, we examine the 1991 season. 1991 was a season that was all but lost after the team underwent an almost sweeping cost-cutting round of roster moves, and then lost Joe Montana to an elbow injury for the full season. Steve Young had come into games...
49ers All-Time Safety #2
In a less than stunning result, Roger Craig is running away with the vote at running back at a whopping 71%. Frank Gore is second at 14%, but I'd imagine in the coming years that vote total will only go up. I thought we'd switch things up and go over to the defensive side of the ball for this...
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