Trey Lance may or may not be ready to be the 49ers’ starting quarterback. He’s surely not a finished product, and given his path to the starting job that includes not playing a full season of football since 2019 at North Dakota State, his learning curve could be larger than usual for quarterbacks transitioning to the NFL. Regardless of whether he’s had enough work to ready himself for Sept. 11 in Chicago when the 49ers open their 2022 campaign, Lance is going to be the starter.
Head coach Kyle Shanahan on Friday in a conference call talked about his QB after the second-year signal caller played five series in two preseason appearances. There’ll be a handful of practices leading up to Week 1, but for the most part Shanahan knows the rest of Lance’s learning and development will have to come in the fire of live NFL regular season games.
