Biggest surprises in 49ers final roster cuts

There were a few surprises on the San Francisco 49ers’ initial 53-man roster.

The 49ers on Tuesday announced an initial 53-man roster for the 2021 regular season. While it wasn’t hard to discern some of the moves that were coming, a roster cut from 80 players to 53 is always going to come with some surprises.

Now that we’ve had some time to take in the initial regular-season roster and the cuts it took to get there, we came up with a list of the biggest surprises from Tuesday: