The San Francisco 49ers acquired Keion White in late October from the New England Patriots. The Niners sent a sixth-round pick to the Patriots, while San Francisco got a seventh-rounder along with White. That seventh-round pick was conditional, and those conditions have been met, meaning the pick is going back to the Pats.<\/p>\n
White needed to be active for seven games with the 49ers, which happened on Monday against the Indianapolis Colts. It\u2019s the seventh game in a row White has played since the trade. If the 49ers hadn\u2019t activated White for the final three games of the season, then the seventh-rounder would have remained with them.<\/p>\n
White\u2019s role has drastically changed on the West Coast. Before the trade, White was playing roughly a third of the snaps with New England. He\u2019s played at least 55 percent of the time with San Francisco in every game but one.<\/p>\n
Under a new regime with the Patriots, White went from playing his natural interior spot to a full-time edge rusher. He\u2019s playing half of his snaps on the inside under Robert Saleh. White\u2019s pressure rate as an interior rusher jumps from 5.9 percent to 11.3 percent compared to when he\u2019s on the edge.<\/p>\n
The 49ers have White under contract through 2026, where his base salary is only $1.8 million. You\u2019ll take a rotational player on a rookie deal for what amounts to a sixth-round pick. White will be even more productive playing alongside Mykel Williams and Nick Bosa once they return from injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers acquired Keion White in late October from the New England Patriots. The Niners sent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,173680,180832,2745,99],"class_list":["post-368343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco-49ers-analysis","tag-san-francisco-49ers-discussion","tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}