The 49ers open camp with 21 roster locks and no quarterback drama. What is left is twelve genuinely open jobs, and the best story among them belongs to a rookie punter with excellent timing.
Opening the season in Melbourne compresses every rehab timeline the 49ers are running. The PUP decisions on George Kittle and Mykel Williams are the ones it touches hardest.
A dynasty ends, a hard rebuild starts, and the only Warriors question worth arguing about right now is which four players get statues and where each one stands.
A blue-line overhaul was mandatory. Paying the top of the market on double the term was not. Comparable defensemen went for $4M that week and the best one available went for two years, while San Jose committed four.
The Sharks' pipeline gets called the league's best by a wide margin. The claim survives an audit, but it rests on three players and one uncomfortable truth about how prospect pools get built.
The Sharks qualified Collin Graf and then spent the summer signing forwards. A month later he is the last RFA standing, and the delay says more about the depth chart than about the money.
Roster math, camp battles, and a 53-man projection that gets graded on cut day.
The deepest coverage on the site: prospects, cap, post-game reports, and a takes ledger kept in public.
A bad big-league season, a farm system worth watching. The weekly prospect report is the whole show.
A dynasty in the rear-view and a hard climb ahead. Occasional essays, honest ones.