Ranking San Francisco 49ers Most Irreplaceable Players

The curious thing about ranking players on a stacked, Super Bowl contender like the San Francisco 49ers, is that being the best might not qualify you as the most irreplaceable and vice versa.

“What’s that, now?” (said with the heavy Minnesota accent of Fargo’s Lester Nygaard).

Take last season for example.

Outside linebacker Aldon Smith missed Weeks 4 through 9 while attending a rehab facility for substance abuse. Yet despite his incontrovertible status as one of the NFL’s upper-echelon pass-rushers, the 49ers went a perfect 5-0 during his absence.

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