{"id":637951,"date":"2026-05-12T05:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/637951\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T05:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:29:11","slug":"49ers-signed-a-rookie-linebacker-who-wouldve-tied-sonny-styles-at-the-nfl-combine-in-the-broad-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/637951\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers signed a rookie linebacker who would\u2019ve tied Sonny Styles at the NFL Combine in the broad jump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The San Francisco 49ers announced they have released linebacker Milo Eifler on Monday afternoon after signing linebacker Larry Worth to a 3-year deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Worth spent his collegiate career at Jacksonville State and Arkansas, where he started 21 times across 47 games. In 2025, Worth started 11 games and had 64 tackles. Worth led all Razorbacks at Arkansas\u2019s Pro Day with a 37.5\u201d vertical jump. He also had a broad jump of 11-foot-2 inches, which would have tied first-round pick Sonny Styles for the furthest jump at the NFL Combine. He ran a 4.66 40-yard dash at 226 pounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With the Razobacks, Worth entered his senior year as a defensive back. During fall camp, Worth was playing the \u201cHog\u201d position as well as boundary safety. Both of those are more hybrid-type positions than a true linebacker or safety. In 2024, Worth played both linebacker and safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">According to PFF\u2019s data, Worth played 622 snaps last season with the Razorbacks. Of those, 290 came at free safety, while another 218 came in the box. He played 85 snaps in the slot and another 24 lined up along the defensive line. It sounds like he\u2019s more of a linebacker convert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Worth was one of the tryout players from the 49ers\u2019 rookie minicamp last week. He obviously did enough to impress the team to sign him to a deal of more than one year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers announced they have released linebacker Milo Eifler on Monday afternoon after signing linebacker Larry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,71438,47545,2745,99],"class_list":["post-637951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco-49ers-free-agency","tag-san-francisco-49ers-roster","tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637951","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=637951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}