Best 49ers to watch vs. Vikings: Childhood Niners lover Sudfeld receives significant QB snaps

MINNEAPOLIS — Nate Sudfeld’s route to the 49ers — and, certainly, his journey in everyday living — started just all over the corner and 7 miles down the avenue from their Santa Clara headquarters.

“Fun truth: So I was in fact born in Santa Clara at the Kaiser Healthcare facility. Yeah, some strange trivia,” Sudfeld, 28, exposed at the commence of coaching camp. “I lived in San Jose right up until I was about 3 or 4, then moved to Modesto, which is seriously exactly where I grew up.

“I grew up a Niner admirer, for certain.”

Fans now are pondering how able Sudfeld is to choose around a playoff-contending staff if Trey Lance gets hurt in his very first yr as the beginning quarterback.

Saturday’s preseason game at the Vikings should offer far more clues.

Mentor Kyle Shanahan does not program to engage in Lance or other front-line starters this game — not soon after this week’s two joint tactics with the Vikings, not with a preseason finale looming Thursday at Houston, and not with the standard season awaiting on Sept. 11.

Enter: Sudfeld, whose to start with pass in the 49ers’ preseason opener sent a 39-property landing strike to Ray-Ray McCloud. Sudfeld performed two quarters in that get in excess of the Packers right before yielding to rookie Brock Purdy.

Lance and his understudies had combined final results in Wednesday and Thursday techniques versus the Vikings. But it is not as if the 49ers are likely to reverse study course and convey back again Jimmy Garoppolo, whose delayed exit from the roster figures to come to fruition within just the future two months if not days.

Guaranteeing Sudfeld $2 million this year, as the 49ers did in March, usually means he’s received the QB2 career. A year ago, he defeat out Josh Rosen for the QB3 function that essentially banished him to the exercise squad, but he also proved a crucial mentor to Lance.

A 2016 fourth-round draft decide out of Indiana, Sudfeld did not enjoy his rookie season with Washington. His ensuing a few-yr tenure with Philadelphia ended controversially, with then-Eagles coach Doug Peterson inserting him into the standard-season finale in place of Jalen Hurts Sudfeld went 5-of-12 for 31 yards and an interception in a 20-14 decline to Washington, which clinched the NFC East and as a result held the New York Giants out of the playoffs.

On what his NFL journey (4 job appearances, 37 passes) has taught him, Sudfeld replied: “I enjoy the activity. I enjoy the camaraderie in the locker room. I adore actively playing the situation, and I’m just experiencing the procedure of getting in San Francisco.”

Technically, the 49ers are headquartered in Santa Clara, his indigenous city. His preferred 49ers?

“Man I could go down the checklist,” Sudfeld replied. “Obviously Joe Montana I was really young but he was naturally who he is, Joe Cool.

“As I watched football much more, Steve Young, of course I liked him,” Sudfeld included. “I have pictures of myself as a tiny child donning a painted No. 8 on a white shirt. I inevitably did get a Steve Youthful jersey, which was pretty awesome. And then Jerry Rice was … the guy. My more mature brothers performed soccer with Brent Jones’ daughter. So Brent Jones is a relatives favorite, also.”