Lance is a bust. Niners were idiotic giving up that much to draft him on just potential.
He got beat out by Sam “seeing ghosts” Darnold to be the backup to Purdy.
Certainly correct on the “bust” judgment, but man it sure went down differently than it has with just about any other top QB pick that didn’t work out. Kid plays his redshirt freshmen college season and shows out, COVID cancels his sophomore season, then he enters the draft and plays in 8 games as a rookie, gets named the starter as a 2nd year player, breaks ankle 2 games in, and that’s all she wrote. Still not sure how you go from being better than Jimmy G to being worse than Sam Darnold in just 365 days, but here we are.
Lance is now in his 6th year removed from high school, his 3rd in the NFL, and he’s only played in like 25 total football games in that time. He was ultimately a bust because he got drafted by a contending “win now” franchise that had no clear incumbent, and thus no time to give him the development he needed. Had he gone the Jordan Love path and been an understudy for 3-4 years, maybe it would have worked out differently.
He’s only 23 so its not too late for him to do that, but that 5th year option is going to make it difficult. The only way Jerry wins this trade is if he signs him to a long extension this season for something like 5 years / $50 million, and let him learn under Dak for at least 2-3 of those years before taking over later. But man, how big of a gamble would that be for a completely unproven player?
