2012 53 man roster discussion/guesses

[49ersfan]

With the draft and FA done, the next significant events to discuss before the season are OTA's and TC...and obviously the preseason. But discussing the 53 man roster will be a big issue as well. Lets use this thread to not only discuss the 53 man roster, but make our own guesses. Here's my immediate post-draft 53 man roster. No specific depth chart order other than obvious starters

QB- Alex Smith, Colin Kaepernick, Josh Johnson
RB- Frank Gore, LaMichael James, Kendall Hunter, Brandon Jacobs
FB- Bruce Miller
WR- Michael Crabtree, Mario Manningham, Randy Moss, Ted Ginn, AJ Jenkins, Kyle Willliams
TE- Vernon Davis, Delanie Walker
OT- Joe Staley, Anthony Davis, Alex Boone, Mike Person
OG- Mike Iupati, Daniel Kilgore, Joe Looney
C- Jonathan Goodwin, Jason Slowey

NT- Isaac Sopoaga, Ian Williams
DE- Justin Smith, Ray McDonald, RJF, Demarcus Dobbs, Will Tuakufu
ILB- Patrick Willis, NaVarro Bowman, Larry Grant
OLB- Aldon Smith, Ahmad Brooks, Parys Haralson, Darrell Fleming, Cam Johnson
CB- Carlos Rogers, Tarrell Brown, Chris Culliver, Perrish Cox, Curtis Holcolmb
S- Dashon Goldson, Dante Whitner, CJ Spillman, Trent Robinson, Colin Jones

K- David Akers
P- Andy Lee
LS- Brian Jennings

Practice Squad- Scott Tolzien, Chris Owosu, Michael Thomas, Matt Mosselfina (spelling?), Chase Beeler, Derek Hall, Konrad Reuland, Cory Nelms

Notable cuts- Tavares Gooden(only plays ST's), Nate Byham, Anthony Dixon, Traimaine Brock
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[Draino]

[niner4ever]

I don't think ginn males it after the James and Jenkins picks also you are forgetting cartright who is strictly a special teamer signing

[struby3]

Gooden will make the team. "Only plays STs" is not true for him. Gooden is a great #4 ILB. Cartwright will likely make the team too. There is no chance that we only keep two tight ends. Byham, Reuland, and Celek will battle it out for the third spot. And the coaching staff thinks highly of Brock. They had him penciled in as a starter during training camp last year.

On your list, I would substitute Brock, Byham, Cartwright, and Gooden for Jacobs, Kyle Williams, Ian Williams, and Holcomb.
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[SoCalNiner]

Byham makes the team as our 3rd blocking TE, and I think Brock makes it over Holcomb.

I think Williams get cut, and either Person/Looney/Slowey are on placed on PS.

[adamq]

Looney and Slowey will at least be on the PS IMO
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-kiltman

[SFaithful97]

[scraly47*]

I think we carry three TEs(Davis, Walker, and Bynum) and five WRs(crabs, Moss, Mario, Ginn, Jenkins). I think it might go this way because Walker is used as a tweener(wr/te) at times. I feel bad for Kyle if he gets cut but that's how things sometimes goes in the nfl.
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-Lork

[adamq]

oh, and its 54. They gave teams one more roster spot iirc
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-kiltman

[struby3]

[oldman9er]

I also thought I remembered reading a 54 man roster... but I'm not seeing it anywhere now. Maybe I just counted 54 beer cans on my counter?

I did read that Training Camp rosters expanded from 80-90... and always felt they should add a few more spots to the 53.
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[struby3]

[oldman9er]

[rudyZ]

[adamq]

Yeah I can't find anything on it anything on it, swore it came up in FFMD though.. Maybe what I'm thinking about is when they added a spot to the active roster.
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-kiltman