He’s still here. Paraag Marathe, the whiz kid hired nearly 20 years ago to lead the 49ers’ analytics revolution, is sitting in a gorgeous executive office overlooking the 49ers practice field on a recent autumn afternoon.



He’s still here, having outlasted both of the executives who hired him, the coaches he helped hire and the pitchforks that tried to run him out of town.



Marathe, and he alone among the 49ers’ top decision-makers, proved impervious to the free-swinging axe of the tumultuous early 2000s, thriving even as three general managers (Terry Donahue, Scot McCloughan and Trent Baalke) and six head coaches were cut down.



The GMs and coaches all fell. Marathe rose.



He’s still here, in his 19th season, having endured the outrageous slings and arrows of sports-talk radio. For a spell a few years ago, criticism turned so vicious that one of his most famous supporters considering going incognito to defend him on the...