Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo said he was happy Trey Lance 'gets another opportunity' after the 49ers traded him to the Cowboys.
"You've been in this league eight years, been on this team, it's hard to say that I was surprised to be honest with you," Prescott said of the trade. to the 49ers in 2017, said having younger guys trying to take starting spots is part of the NFL.
"I think that’s just the nature of the beast. It’s a competitive league," he told Fox News Digital."We all have guys pushing us. There’s always a younger guy who wants to take your spot. That’s just how it goes. We were all that younger guy at one point and you grow up. You got to have perspective on everything, you got to understand the ranks of the NFL, and just gotta keep pushing forward.
Niners head coach Kyle Shanahan said Friday that Lance said he wanted to go to an organization that gave him the opportunity to be the backup quarterback. Jimmy Garoppolo and Trey Lance of the San Francisco 49ers on the sideline during the preseason game against the Los Angeles Chargers at SoFi Stadium on Aug. 22, 2021, in Inglewood, California."When we told Trey, when we told him that he wasn’t the two [quarterback], I said we’d like to keep him here as the three. But we also want to do what’s good for him, too," Shanahan told reporters.
"And when we looked into other teams, and he told us that he would like another opportunity to go somewhere where he had a chance to be the No. 2," Shanahan continued."we thought we got some good deals for him. There was a number of teams involved. To end up getting the fourth was a little better than we anticipated and clears up a lot of money and allows a better situation for him, too." Joe Morgan is a Sports Reporter for Fox News.
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