Predicting 49ers 53-man roster just before final roster cuts

With the preseason wrapped up, the football world turns to who stays with their current teams and who will be cut. Like the rest of the NFL, it will be up to the San Francisco 49ers front office to make those decisions. With that in mind, let’s take one last crack at prognosticating who will make the 2019 roster.

So yes, we’ve spent a good chunk of the offseason trying to predict which players will survive final cuts and make the final 53-man roster. In those cases, however, the goal was to project based on the assumed thoughts and actions of San Francisco 49ers general manager John Lynch and head coach Kyle Shanahan.

This time, the idea is slightly different.

I’m attempting to predict what Lynch and Shanahan will do, basing those choices on camp reports, preseason games, the current injury situation and some of the things either Lynch or Shanahan themselves have said.

For example, whether I think the 49ers should carry three quarterbacks is irrelevant. The point is whether Lynch and Shanahan will choose to do so.

On top of that, I’ll also indicate who I generally believe will be the game-day actives given the roster construction (marked with a *), with the caveat that game plans and injuries throughout the regular season will impact those choices. This is just the ideal.

I’ll end with players on the current 90-man roster who have played themselves onto the practice squad, recognizing, of course, that in order to make it that far, they first must clear waivers, which makes predicting those slots difficult.