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OTA’s are on Monday https://www.49ersfanshop.com/Garrett-Celek-Jersey , and both players will have a fresh start" />Skip to main contentclockmenumore-arrownoyesHorizontal - nityLog In or Sign UpLog InSign UpFanpostsFanshotsSectionsLibrary49ersOddsShopAboutMastheadCommunity GuidelinesStubHubMoreAll 322 blogs on Horizontal - WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections 49ers Salary CapLevi’s Stadium Events49ers Transactions49ers Injury News49ers Press Conferences & Conference CallsFiled under:San Francisco 49ers NewsNick Mullens opens up about upcoming competition at quarterback with C.J. BeathardNew,69commentsOTA’s are on Monday, and both players will have a fresh startPDTShareTweetShareShareNick Mullens opens up about upcoming competition at quarterback with C.J. BeathardPhoto by John McCoy/Getty ImagesMonday kicks off OTA’s for the San Francisco 49ers. Monday will mark the first of 10-day practice period where no live contact is permitted, but 7-on-7, 9-on-7, and 11-on-11 drills are allowed. There will be plenty of players trying to carve out their role on the team in 2019. For Nick Mullens, he will try to maintain the role of a backup quarterback.In 2018, Mullens was thrown into the starting lineup after C.J. Beathard was injured. It’s not often you can be productive on offense when your third-string quarterback is playing a substantial amount of snaps. With Mullens out there, that’s precisely what happened. Mullens threw three touchdowns against the Oakland Raiders and had six incompletions in a 34-3 route during his first start in the NFL. While Mullens finished with a 3-5 record, you won’t get many arguments on who the second-best QB on the 49ers is. Just rewatching some of Mullens throws Arik Armstead Jersey , he had a couple “wow” throws every game. Those throws weren’t just good for a rookie, but for any quarterback.Mullens still acknowledges and accepts that there will be a battle for the backup quarterback position:Now is important. Proving it during the games is essential as well. Mullens did that. He became the first 49ers quarterback to throw for 220-or-more yards in eight consecutive games since Joe Montana did so in nine straight games from December 9, 1985, to December 7, 1986. He had one game-winning drive and would have had another one if the defense would have been able to hold up against the New York Giants.Beathard might improve as well. Both players should be better with the new weapons around them. Mullens has proven it, and knows it: Like 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, 49ers linebacker Kwon Alexander avoided the physically unable to perform list for his first post-ACL tear training camp. Coach Kyle Shanahan nevertheless plans to take it slow with the former Buccaneer to whom the team gave a large pile of money despite the knee injury.“We’ll definitely ease him in,” Shanahan told reporters on Friday. “We don’t expect him to play early in those [preseason] games. I think he did it in October and had the surgery in November. . . . He’s looked great, he’s been here in the offseason working out and rehabbing, but anyone coming off an injury like that especially at his position and as late as it was Frank Gore Color Rush Jersey , he’s a little later than [Jerick McKinnon] and Jimmy, we’ll definitely ease him in.”Alexander isn’t the only one who’ll be eased in. The 49ers apparently will be adjusting their broader approach this year.“We’re going to ease our whole team and we’re going to do reps a little bit differently this year and with some stuff we’ve gotten just talking to [head of player health and performance] Ben [Peterson] and [head athletic trainer] Dustin [Little] and looking at the science of some things over the last seven years,” Shanahan said. “We’re going to ease our whole team in, but Kwon and a few of those other guys we’ve mentioned, they’ll be eased in even more.”Like Garoppolo, Alexander won’t play in the preseason opener. Shanahan emphasized that he hasn’t ruled out either of them for the entirety of the exhibition slate. Still, the overriding goal is to get and keep players healthy; the fact that the team wasn’t able to do that last year contributed to a failure to meet the very high expectations the 49ers had a year ago.