"Arizona was very interested in Knight after he was part of SF's cuts to get down to 53 players last month," Barrows noted in a tweet.
San Francisco initially signed Knight as an undrafted free agent out of UCLA in 2022. He had the second-highest coverage grade of all 49ers defensive backs during the preseason (81.4 compared to A.J. Parker's 85.9).
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