The San Francisco 49ers had a rough 2024 season. Due to a handful of injuries, they only had six wins.
It seemed that the 49ers would lose star players like wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk and running back Christian McCaffrey throughout the season.
The defense also wasn’t great, and at the end of the season, the team fired defensive coordinator Nick Sorensen.
The 49ers made a major splash during the offseason by signing defensive coordinator Robert Saleh and Kyle Posey from Niners Nation thinks the Saleh addition was the most “impactful” for the 49ers this offseason.
“Whether you want to use “best” or “impactful,” the answer is easy,” Posey wrote. “The 49ers didn’t have a problem solver as a defensive coordinator in each of the past two seasons. Nick Sorensen’s inexperience was apparent all too often in the second halves of games last year. This is far from the best unit Saleh will have coached in his career, but he has more than enough pieces to get the 49ers defense out of the basement of some categories they’ve been stuck in since DeMeco Ryans’s departure. Saleh will help the 49ers return to their roots, from style of play, tackling, run defense, and making opponents earn every first down. Expect a trial-and-error process through the first month or so of the season as Saleh figures out who can do what in game settings. Once that happens, Saleh’s adjustments will become noticeable, and we’ll see San Francisco return to complementary football.”
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Saleh was the 49ers’ defensive coordinator from 2017 to 2020 before leaving for the New York Jets head coaching job. He spent three-plus years there before being fired in the middle of the 2024 season.
Saleh should be able to get the 49ers’ defense rolling again, as it was before he became the Jets’ head coach.
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