No NFL team needs quarterback help at the moment more than the San Francisco 49ers, who will be keeping a close eye on all the quarterback prospects participating in this week's NFL Scouting Combine. During his media session at the combine Thursday, 49ers general manager John Lynch discussed this year's crop of quarterbacks, which has been described as underwhelming by scouts and analysts but contains some players Lynch seems to like.

"I think it's a very talented draft class at that position," Lynch said. "We're very excited about those guys. I don't think you need to be too transparent to realize that's a position we're looking at. We don't have any."

The 49ers, as Lynch mentioned, have a blank slate at the quarterback position as all four of their quarterbacks from last season are slated for free agency. Blaine Gabbert, Christian Ponder and Thad Lewis will all become unrestricted free agents on March 9, while Colin Kaepernick will become a free agent after opting out of the final year of his contract with the 49ers. That leaves the 49ers very much considering the prospect of using their No. 2 overall draft pick on a quarterback, with three of the candidates for that pick being DeShone Kizer of Notre Dame, Deshaun Watson of Clemson and Mitch Trubisky of North Carolina.

Lynch said during his combine media session Thursday that he met with Kizer on Wednesday night and that couldn't have been more impressive.

"I think this whole thing's not about an interview, but if you were grading him on that alone, he blew the doors off it," Lynch said. "He's an impressive young man. His film's very impressive."

Lynch also spoke highly of Watson, who will be looking to prove to NFL teams this week he deserves to be considered to be selected somewhere in the top half of the draft.

"I love winners, and he has that," Lynch said. "He also has, from the brief interaction before I was hired as general manager of the 49ers, I spent some time around him at the Super Bowl, and there's certain guys that just carry themselves differently, have a presence about him. I'd put him in that category. In the brief time you could just see there's a confidence, an aura that he carries himself with that's pretty special."

Trubisky is the quarterback many draft analysts rank first at the position, and he enters into the combine with some concerns over the fact he only started one season at North Carolina before entering the draft. If his combine measurements are any indication, however, he's gotten off to a good start this week.

"I got a note today from somebody over there, he measured over 6-2, so he made himself some money today, I promise you," Lynch said. "You can see just like the other guys I talked about why people like him. He grows on you. The more you watch him, the more you like him."

Lynch has been adamant since taking over the 49ers general manager job the team would leave no stone unturned when it came to addressing the quarterback position, including looking at trade options and the quarterbacks the 49ers had last season in addition to free agency and the draft. This year's crop of college and free agent quarterbacks has drawn some negative reviews, and there's a chance trade market may wind up being underwhelming as well, but Lynch is taking a glass half-full approach when it comes to the quarterbacks available to the 49ers in the weeks ahead.

"We've got some great options at our disposal," Lynch said. "A lot of people look at it like 'Oh my gosh, you don't have any quarterbacks,' but that also is somewhat liberating in that you can create this thing in that position that is so critical in the way that you want it. Now we're restricted by who's available and what not, but I think we've got a lot of great options at our disposal."