Franchise leading rusher Frank Gore has joined the 49ers in a front office role with the personnel department, where he will help with player evaluation.
Gore has officially rejoined the NFL team where he made his name as a player, signing with the 49ers front office in the "football advisor category." He posted a picture of the deal being signed on Instagram.
Gore has been around the team since the spring, learning the ropes on the personnel side. In his new role, he will be working with general manager John Lynch, assistant general manager Adam Peters and their staff on player evaluation.Just before the NFL draft in April, Lynch said Gore sat in on pre-draft meetings, taking notes on how the process plays out.
"He'll go out on the road with some of our road scouts to make school calls," Lynch said Saturday in a statement. "He is a smart football mind, and we want to tap into it and he wants to learn from us, so it's a good thing for everyone involved." The 49ers originally selected Gore in the third round of the 2005 NFL draft. He went on to amass 11,073 rushing yards, the most in Niners history, made five Pro Bowls in his 10 seasons with the team and landed on the NFL's All-Decade team for the 2010s. He went on to play for the
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