What will the Niners do on draft day?

As NFL.com would say, the Niners are in a "fascinating position" sitting at pick #9. The trade tsunami has already started with the Jets and the Colts making moves, but the Niners are picking too late to be part of the rest of the NFL's race for the top four QB's. CBS Sports wrote an article with a huge list of potential trades centered around the draft and the Niners are only mentioned once:

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2018-nfl-draft-mock-trades-top-five-picks-odell-beckham-leveon-bell-and-much-more/

The Niners still have a pretty long list of needs to fulfill to be a playoff team this year. What do you think they will do? I would love for them to trade back to recoup their early second round pick that they gave up for Jimmy G, but don't know who will want their pick that badly. Going to be interesting no matter what.

This is one of the more exciting drafts I can remember because I have no Fn clue what the Niners are going to do. I'm not really even rooting for anyone, so long as we don't take a QB, FB, interior DL or like a specialist or someone Baalke like that's hurt or belongs getting picked in the 3rd round, I'm cool with whomever this organization wants to take.

It's been so long since I felt confidence in the GM/HC to do what's best, I'm just gonna enjoy it this year.

Problem is picks 6-10 don't need QBs and top 5 picks teams do.

Originally posted by ChaunceyGardner:

Problem is picks 6-10 don't need QBs and top 5 picks teams do.

The problem IMO is there are only four top flight QB's in the eyes of most evaluators and we need the teams outside the top 10 to be desperate enough to move up (Cards, Bills, Saints, Chargers, Ravens, Steelers or Patriots). The Niners need one of the top 4 to fall out of favor or for those other teams in the teens to fall in love with Lamar Jackson or Mason Rudolph. So far, it's not looking good.

Originally posted by m_brockalexander:
The problem IMO is there are only four top flight QB's in the eyes of most evaluators and we need the teams outside the top 10 to be desperate enough to move up (Cards, Bills, Saints, Chargers, Ravens, Steelers or Patriots). The Niners need one of the top 4 to fall out of favor or for those other teams in the teens to fall in love with Lamar Jackson or Mason Rudolph. So far, it's not looking good.

There are other players outside of the QB's that a team may want to trade up for. You just don't get the King's Ransom for a non QB. instead of a future 1st you get a current 2nd or a 3rd and 5th (depending on how far we fall).

The same talent we are debating over taking, GM's will be wanting to take too. They just may not be in position to take them. So they would need to move up. Just more reasonably.

Originally posted by ChaunceyGardner:
Problem is picks 6-10 don't need QBs and top 5 picks teams do.

They will if QB needy teams like AZ and BUF trade up into it.

Originally posted by krizay:

Originally posted by m_brockalexander:
The problem IMO is there are only four top flight QB's in the eyes of most evaluators and we need the teams outside the top 10 to be desperate enough to move up (Cards, Bills, Saints, Chargers, Ravens, Steelers or Patriots). The Niners need one of the top 4 to fall out of favor or for those other teams in the teens to fall in love with Lamar Jackson or Mason Rudolph. So far, it's not looking good.

There are other players outside of the QB's that a team may want to trade up for. You just don't get the King's Ransom for a non QB. instead of a future 1st you get a current 2nd or a 3rd and 5th (depending on how far we fall).

The same talent we are debating over taking, GM's will be wanting to take too. They just may not be in position to take them. So they would need to move up. Just more reasonably.

Good point. The QB's will push down prospects like Fitzpatrick, Chubb, Nelson, etc. and they will be in demand. Let's hope there are teams interested enough in those guys to give the Niners some value for their pick.

I voted bpa and think that would be landry but with Staley's age and Trent Brown contract status someone could place a solid argument for to draft an OT like Mike McGlinchey in the first.

I voted to trade down here's my reasoning.

I think the following players will be off the board by pick 9.

Sam Darnold, Bradley Chubb, Josh Rosen, Saquan Barkley, Josh Allen, Quenton Nelson, Derwin James, and Denzel Ward.

This leaves Minkah Fitzpatrick, Harold Landry, Roquan Smith, Tremaine Edmunds, and Marcus Davenport as potential picks at 9.

The Green Bay Packers are in dire need of secondary help according to most pundits and talking heads, so the 49ers could trade the 9th pick for the Packers 14th pick in the 1st and their 3rd rounder pick 76 and still come away with 1 of these players who fits a need or even maybe pick a prospect like Joshua Jackson, Will Hernandez, or James Daniels, who would obviously all make a little more sense going in the mid-teens.

Originally posted by m_brockalexander:
The problem IMO is there are only four top flight QB's in the eyes of most evaluators and we need the teams outside the top 10 to be desperate enough to move up (Cards, Bills, Saints, Chargers, Ravens, Steelers or Patriots). The Niners need one of the top 4 to fall out of favor or for those other teams in the teens to fall in love with Lamar Jackson or Mason Rudolph. So far, it's not looking good.

Depending on how the QB's go, other players can fall that teams find value in but the 49ers best shot for a tradedown is a team seeing a Lamar Jackson as Top 10 worthy.

Originally posted by NinerLegionnaire:
I voted to trade down here's my reasoning.

I think the following players will be off the board by pick 9.

Sam Darnold, Bradley Chubb, Josh Rosen, Saquan Barkley, Josh Allen, Quenton Nelson, Derwin James, and Denzel Ward.

This leaves Minkah Fitzpatrick, Harold Landry, Roquan Smith, Tremaine Edmunds, and Marcus Davenport as potential picks at 9.

The Green Bay Packers are in dire need of secondary help according to most pundits and talking heads, so the 49ers could trade the 9th pick for the Packers 14th pick in the 1st and their 3rd rounder pick 76 and still come away with 1 of these players who fits a need or even maybe pick a prospect like Joshua Jackson, Will Hernandez, or James Daniels, who would obviously all make a little more sense going in the mid-teens.

Replace Hernandez with Wynn at #14 and I'm on board.

Originally posted by NinerLegionnaire:
I voted to trade down here's my reasoning.

I think the following players will be off the board by pick 9.

Sam Darnold, Bradley Chubb, Josh Rosen, Saquan Barkley, Josh Allen, Quenton Nelson, Derwin James, and Denzel Ward.

This leaves Minkah Fitzpatrick, Harold Landry, Roquan Smith, Tremaine Edmunds, and Marcus Davenport as potential picks at 9.

The Green Bay Packers are in dire need of secondary help according to most pundits and talking heads, so the 49ers could trade the 9th pick for the Packers 14th pick in the 1st and their 3rd rounder pick 76 and still come away with 1 of these players who fits a need or even maybe pick a prospect like Joshua Jackson, Will Hernandez, or James Daniels, who would obviously all make a little more sense going in the mid-teens.

I wouldn't mind this scenario at all!

Plus I feel like there's way too much focus on Rd 1. Pick the BPA and then move on. Rounds 2-7 is where the team is built imo.

If all of the big 4 qb's go before we pick someone with better value than a 9 pick is going to fall to us so we stay put for bpa. If not we trade down with a qb hungry team

They try to make a trade. If that falls through, they take BPA.

Originally posted by mayo49:

Originally posted by NinerLegionnaire:

I voted to trade down here's my reasoning.

I think the following players will be off the board by pick 9.

Sam Darnold, Bradley Chubb, Josh Rosen, Saquan Barkley, Josh Allen, Quenton Nelson, Derwin James, and Denzel Ward.

This leaves Minkah Fitzpatrick, Harold Landry, Roquan Smith, Tremaine Edmunds, and Marcus Davenport as potential picks at 9.

The Green Bay Packers are in dire need of secondary help according to most pundits and talking heads, so the 49ers could trade the 9th pick for the Packers 14th pick in the 1st and their 3rd rounder pick 76 and still come away with 1 of these players who fits a need or even maybe pick a prospect like Joshua Jackson, Will Hernandez, or James Daniels, who would obviously all make a little more sense going in the mid-teens.

Replace Hernandez with Wynn at #14 and I'm on board.

Agree, Wynn would be an excellent selection at #14, better fit than Hernandez.