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Aug 25, 2023

San Francisco 49ers release former first

The San Francisco 49ers have had one of the best defenses in football for quite some time, sporting a top-five defense in yards allowed each of the last four seasons. Unfortunately, former first-round

The San Francisco 49ers have had one of the best defenses in football for quite some time, sporting a top-five defense in yards allowed each of the last four seasons. Unfortunately, former first-round pick Taco Charlton will not be a part of their feared defense this coming season.

Charlton was a standout player at Michigan, which led to the Dallas Cowboys selecting him with the No. 28 pick in the 2017 NFL Draft.

Unfortunately, things have simply not panned out for Charlton in the NFL, spending his first six NFL seasons on five different teams. Charlton has also only started 13 games since entering the league in 2017.

He will again need to look elsewhere to potentially revive his NFL career, as he was released by the 49ers on Sunday after reaching an injury settlement after going on IR earlier this month.

The 49ers have released Taco Charlton, who went on IR earlier this month, with an injury settlement, per the NFL wire.

The cutdown has begun, although Charlton wasn't even part of the 90-man roster anyway because of IR

— David Lombardi (@LombardiHimself) August 27, 2023

Charlton will now have only two weeks to find an interested team elsewhere to bring him in before the start of the regular season. That is if he is even healthy enough to play for any interested teams. And given his failure to latch on with teams in the past, fans are certainly not optimistic that will happen.

UPDATE: The #49ers have released former #Cowboys 1st round pick Taco Charlton

49ers already pretty stacked on the DLine as they trim their roster down to 53. pic.twitter.com/iGjfUXTEgv

— JPAFootball (@jasrifootball) August 27, 2023

The brief Taco Charlton & 49ers hype / panic was a fun moment https://t.co/56edAQeyue

— Tom Downey (@WhatGoingDowney) August 27, 2023

So no Taco Sundays for Niners

— 🇺🇸 Gadfly 🇺🇸 (@DonHogue9) August 27, 2023

Does that officially make him a bust ?

— Sippin SizzXRP (@SSizzxrp) August 27, 2023

Considering Charlton was once selected over players like T.J. Watt, Budda Baker, and Dalvin Cook in the draft, it’s pretty hard to say that his career to this point can be considered anything other than a massive bust.

[David Lombardi]

Reice Shipley is a staff writer for Comeback Media that graduated from Ithaca College with a degree in Sports Media. He previously worked at Barrett Sports Media and is a fan of all things Syracuse sports.

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"It seems like a play you'd see in a Savannah Bananas game."

"Leatherwood is a Trey Lance scale Bust."

"Jay Monahan getting a little Gary Bettman treatment at East Lake."

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