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Steve Wilks has had a roller coaster ride in his first season as defensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers. Faced with a tricky task of taking over a successful defense that still had the same position coaches and system of his predecessor DeMeco Ryans, Wilks tried to add his own twists without ruining what had worked so well in the past. There were good moments such as a dominating five-game start to the season and bad ones such as a three-game losing streak in October that led to Wilks moving from the coaching booth to the sideline.

The San Francisco 49ers made the kind of decision that could set a franchise back for years when they traded three first-round picks to draft Trey Lance third overall in 2021. The big investment in a potential franchise quarterback turned into a dud with Lance making just four starts his first two seasons and then being dealt away last summer for a fourth-round pick when he couldn't even earn the No. 2 job on the 49ers. The impact on the field from one of the worst draft moves in recent history has been minimal with San Francisco making the NFC championship game the first two seasons af...

San Francisco 49ers CEO Jed York has always appreciated coach Kyle Shanahan's honesty starting from the time of his first interview when he called the team's roster the worst in the NFL. “He’s like, ‘I think our third-string quarterback is our best quarterback,’” York recalled Thursday as his team prepares for the Super Bowl. It meant a lot considering the 49ers had traded three first-round picks to draft Trey Lance third overall a little more than a year before that and still had Jimmy Garoppolo and his more than $20 million salary on the roster ...

Kyle Shanahan's offense is mimicked throughout the NFL as his innovative schemes are utilized by teams throughout the league. In seven years in charge in San Francisco, Shanahan has turned overlooked quarterbacks into productive ones, has led the 49ers to four NFC championship trips and now has the Niners in the Super Bowl for the second time in the past five seasons. All that's missing for Shanahan is the championship that painfully eluded him as a coordinator in Atlanta and then again in his first trip to the title game with San Francisco.

The San Francisco 49ers have turned into the comeback kids this postseason. The only team that didn't pull off a second-half rally in the regular season has done it in back-to-back weeks in the playoffs, capped by one of the biggest comebacks in conference championship game history. The Niners (14-5) became the fourth team ever to overcome a deficit of least 17 points in a conference title game, beating the Detroit Lions 34-31 in the NFC championship game Sunday to silence the doubters who questioned whether they could stage that kind of rally.