Matt Barrows

Matt Barrows is a reporter who has covered the San Francisco 49ers for more than two decades for The Athletic and the Sacramento Bee. He spent two years in South Carolina with the Hilton Head Island Packet, where he won an award for environmental reporting. He has a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Virginia and a master's in journalism from Northwestern University. An avid birder and amazing uncle, Matt thinks his older sister is bossy and sends too many early...See more

Matt Barrows is a reporter who has covered the San Francisco 49ers for more than two decades for The Athletic and the Sacramento Bee. He spent two years in South Carolina with the Hilton Head Island Packet, where he won an award for environmental reporting. He has a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Virginia and a master's in journalism from Northwestern University. An avid birder and amazing uncle, Matt thinks his older sister is bossy and sends too many early-morning texts. See less