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Welcome to the 49ers Insider Podcast on NBC Sports Bay Area.com.

Introducing your host, San Francisco 49ers Insider, Matt Mayoko.

On this edition of the 49ers Insider

podcast, we get a chance to meet Dante Pettis. He's the wide receiver and kick

returner from Washington and that the 49ers took with the number 44 overall selection.

In fact, not only did they take him in the second round of the draft

they traded up to take him in the second round of the draft he had nine pun returns

for touchdowns during his college career that's an

NC2A record. Kyle Shannon hand likes the fact that he can play all the

receiver positions outside inside and as well as be a factor on fourth downs as a punt return guy.

Pettis has the pedigree, his dad was a center fielder, gold glove player

for many years in Major League Baseball, his cousin Austin Pettis, played in the

NFL as a receiver and helped train Dante for the draft.

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