Junior Colson

With both Eric Kendricks and Kenneth Murray situated in new locales this offseason, Colson enters his rookie campaign as the team's de-facto starting middle linebacker. That he reprises that role for his college coach, Jim Harbaugh is noteworthy as was the draft capital (third-round pick) invested in the Michigan product. Colson doesn't quite have the measureables (6-2, 238 pounds) that would necessarily intimidate defenses, but he's agile and attacks a lane with conviction. Harbaugh's last stint in the NFL coincided with arguably the greatest stretch of 49ers linebackers in franchise history and the 21-year-old is poised to kickstart the positional lineage now in Los Angeles.

• Tyler Conklin
  TE
• Nick Mullens
  QB
• D'Shawn Jamison
  DB
• Tysheem Johnson
  DB
• Connor McGovern
  OG
• Tonka Hemingway
  DL
• Josh Newton
  DB
• Mario Williams
  WR