{"id":442759,"date":"2026-08-25T05:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T05:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/442759\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T05:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T05:54:10","slug":"49ers-sign-viliami-fehoko-former-san-jose-state-and-st-francis-star-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/442759\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers sign Viliami Fehoko, former San Jose State and St. Francis star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defensive lineman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2022\/11\/29\/san-jose-state-fehoko-named-mountain-wests-best-defender\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Viliami Fehoko Jr.<\/a>, a Bay Area product from St. Francis High (Mountain View) and San Jose State, signed with the 49ers on Monday, a day after trying out with two others.<\/p>\n<p>Tight end Josiah Deguara was released in a corresponding move.<\/p>\n<p>Fehoko (6-foot-4, 267 pounds) was a 2023 fourth-round pick by the Dallas Cowboys and he is yet to play in an NFL regular-season game after stints with the Cowboys (2023), the Washington Commanders (2025) and the Indianapolis Colts (2025-26). He had the second-most tackles for loss (46) in San Jose State history over his five seasons, and he racked up 23 sacks in 48 games.<\/p>\n<p>As a three-year starter for the Spartans, he was a three-time All-Mountain West performer, each time being named to the first team. His first visit to the all-conference list was in 2020, when San Jose State won the Mountain West with an undefeated regular season, which was shortened due to COVID.<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, as a senior, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2022\/11\/29\/san-jose-state-fehoko-named-mountain-wests-best-defender\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fehoko was the conference\u2019s defensive player of the year<\/a>. Fehoko is the second cousin of another former star lineman from the Bay Area: Vita Vea of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who played at Milpitas High before going to Washington and ascending to become a Pro Bowl player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defensive lineman Viliami Fehoko Jr., a Bay Area product from St. Francis High (Mountain View) and San Jose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[752,296,88,90,89,127],"class_list":["post-442759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}