“And he thought for sure his arm would be killing him. “And I called him in ’Frisco on Saturday at noon,” he said. The quarterback left for the Bay Area that night certain he was going to be in pain the next day. Christensen said his lessons with Lance, which were held in the Dallas area, wrapped up with a particularly vigorous session, one in which Lance threw 150 balls. For example, he’s been working with Raiders rookie quarterback Aidan O’Connell since O’Connell was 12 and he’s never had to ice his arm.īy the end of their time together, the problem had improved. That doesn’t happen to quarterbacks who have the right technique, Christensen said. When they first started working together in early March, Lance’s arm would become tender after three days of intense work and he’d need to take a day off for rest and treatment. The finger and ankle are no longer issues. He was making progress as a thrower when the regular season began, but then suffered a broken ankle in the first quarter of Week 2, ending his season. He broke his right index finger in the 49ers’ preseason finale in 2021, which affected him the rest of his rookie season and which bled into the spring period last year. Shanahan noted that injuries have played a big role in Lance’s delivery. But he’s currently recovering from elbow surgery and the spring practices will be led by Lance, Sam Darnold and newcomer Brandon Allen. Purdy is expected to be the team’s starter in 2023. Still, that percentage was close to his 54.7 percent mark during the 2022 training camp, which trailed Brock Purdy (69.3 percent) and Nate Sudfeld (73.5 percent). He’s completed just 54.9 percent of his passes over his first two seasons, albeit with one of his four starts occurring in uncommonly wet and sloppy conditions in Chicago. “(Over) the last seven days, every day was a substantial jump.”Īccuracy has been an issue for Lance since the 49ers drafted him No. “And to his credit he just kept getting better,” he continued. And I think that visual buy-in, that mental buy-in, helped him past that mental hump.” And then he saw Patrick apply it perfectly. “It was something I was telling him to do that he wasn’t quite doing. Watch what he does here,’” Christensen recounted.
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