Lance, a 2018 Marshall High School graduate and North Dakota State University quarterback was selected third overall in the NFL draft by the San Francisco 49ers on Thursday evening in Cleveland, Ohio.
Last month, the 49ers traded the 12th overall pick, two future first-round picks and a third-round pick in 2022 to Miami to be able to vault up to the No.
After Jacksonville and the New York Jets took fellow quarterbacks Trevor Lawrence from Clemson and Zach Wilson from Brigham Young University with the first two selections, respectively — to no one’s surprise — there was a lot of speculation as to who would be drafted after that.
And then when you add on a type of running element, which I’ve always been intrigued with, but when you’ve got a guy who’s got the skill-sets as far as speed and size to where you’re not going to make him a runner but if you get in certain formations where the defense knows you will run him if they don’t honor him, now everything’s different.
“We got a good feel for who Trey is; I think one of the cool things for us at the pro day, walking out we made it a point to say hello to his parents and that was really cool because when you have a special young man like that the good Lord had a hand in that but there’s two parents that were very responsible for how this guy carries himself and it is very impressive,” Lynch said.
At NDSU, Lance redshirted his first season and played in two games, completing a pass and scoring two touchdowns on the ground.
In what ended up being his final game in a Bison uniform, Lance completed 15 of his 30 passes for 149 yards and tossed two touchdowns and threw his only career interception after 307 consecutive pass attempts.
The 49ers currently have Jimmy Garoppolo as their starter, who helped lead San Francisco to a Super Bowl appearance after throwing for 3,978 yards and 27 touchdowns in the 2019 season.