Skip to footer

San Francisco 49ers sign top draft choice, last of 11 picks to ink deal

San Francisco 49ers: The defending NFC champions have signed the last of their 11 2013 draft picks. Training camp for the San Francisco 49ers starts later this month.

|
Jeff Chiu/AP
Safety Eric Reid, the first-round draft pick of the San Francisco 49ers, center, holds up a jersey with head coach Jim Harbaugh, left, and general manager Trent Baalke during a news conference at the team's training facility in Santa Clara, Calif., April 26, 2013.
  • By Associated Press

| Santa Clara, Calif.

The San Francisco 49ers have signed first-round pick Eric Reid to a four-year contract.

With Tuesday's announcement, San Francisco has all 11 of its draft picks signed. The former LSU safety had actually tweeted a photo from Instagram of him signing a contract last week.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The 49ers drafted Reid 18th overall in April.

In 39 games over three seasons with LSU, the 6-foot-1, 213-pound Reid finished with 199 tackles, six interceptions, two forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries, 11 pass breakups and 4 ½ tackles for loss. Last season, Reid started all 13 games and tallied 91 tackles, two interceptions, one fumble recovery and seven pass breakups.

The 22-year-old is a native of Baton Rouge, La.

You've read  of  free articles. Subscribe to continue.
Real news can be honest, hopeful, credible, constructive.
What is the Monitor difference? Tackling the tough headlines – with humanity. Listening to sources – with respect. Seeing the story that others are missing by reporting what so often gets overlooked: the values that connect us. That’s Monitor reporting – news that changes how you see the world.
editor@csmonitor.com
Subscribe
Mark Sappenfield
Editor

Dear Reader,

About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:

“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”

If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.

But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.

The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.

We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”

If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to CSMonitor.com.

Subscribe to insightful journalism

QR Code to San Francisco 49ers sign top draft choice, last of 11 picks to ink deal
Read this article in
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2013/0710/San-Francisco-49ers-sign-top-draft-choice-last-of-11-picks-to-ink-deal
QR Code to Subscription page
Start your subscription today
https://www.csmonitor.com/subscribe