RB Leonard Fournette

Originally posted by PRIMETIME21:
Wow ok buddy lol, you can't teach 240 4.5 speed

If we stay put at #2, my leading candidates are Fournette, Hooker.

If Cleveland take Myles this is my pick.

I wanted this kid for the last two years. If we draft Fournette what is Hyde's trade value? I'd also love to see us somehow draft Corey Davis. If he somehow falls into the 20s, even tho it's unlikely I hope we trade up from 34. It looks like Cousins will be a 49er in 2018, our offense will be pretty damn good by the time we sign him. ( I personally wouldn't trade for him this year, especially #2 overall. I'd rather have one more offseason with a top 10 draft pick then have cousins this year n go 8-8 )

QB- Cousins
RB- Fournette/Hyde
FB/H-Back- Juszczyk
WR- Garçon/Davis
Slot- Kerly

I think we'd put up top 10 maybe top 5 offensive numbers

Originally posted by cmix23:
I wanted this kid for the last two years. If we draft Fournette what is Hyde's trade value? I'd also love to see us somehow draft Corey Davis. If he somehow falls into the 20s, even tho it's unlikely I hope we trade up from 34. It looks like Cousins will be a 49er in 2018, our offense will be pretty damn good by the time we sign him. ( I personally wouldn't trade for him this year, especially #2 overall. I'd rather have one more offseason with a top 10 draft pick then have cousins this year n go 8-8 )

QB- Cousins
RB- Fournette/Hyde
FB/H-Back- Juszczyk
WR- Garçon/Davis
Slot- Kerly

I think we'd put up top 10 maybe top 5 offensive numbers

I doubt there'd be much interest in Hyde. Probably a 4th round pick if we're lucky, but this is a pretty deep draft class and you could find a pretty good RB in the draft who you can sign for cheap for 4 years instead of trading for Hyde. When he's healthy, Hyde is a top 15 RB, but there's not a lot of value to be had in trading away an injury prone starting RB in the last year of his contract. I'm still on board with drafting Fournette if we think he's the BPA.

I mean, look what Shanahan did with Freeman and Coleman in Atlanta. A Fournette-Hyde combo could be dangerous. The Niners have more needs at other positions but damn it'd be tough to pass on a talent like Fournette.

If they don't trade the #2 pick, I think they will take one of the following, depending on who goes #1.

• Garrett
• One of the quarterbacks (e.g., Trubisky, Watson)
• Fournette

Originally posted by Lurker:
If they don't trade the #2 pick, I think they will take one of the following, depending on who goes #1.

• Garrett
• One of the quarterbacks (e.g., Trubisky, Watson)
• Fournette

you can arguably add solomon and one either of the top safeties. but i think those 3 are the more obvious ones. i dont think anyone is going to trade up unless its for a qb and i dont think anyone is going to do that.

Originally posted by Lurker:

If they don't trade the #2 pick, I think they will take one of the following, depending on who goes #1.

• Garrett
• One of the quarterbacks (e.g., Trubisky, Watson)
• Fournette

I don't think it's a system fit, has he got the patience (and is he coachable enough) to wait for a seam and then cut and go? Under the Harbaugh power scheme with Baalke's love of size, he would have been the pick

Been saying draft this guy. Fournette, Hyde, and juice. Wow

If we are gonna draft a RB id rather we trade back and get McCaffrey

The Jaguars should draft him. They are trying to justify that Blake Bortles is a franchise QB. They have invested heavily in their defense over the last 3 years really including the secondary; Ramsey, Church, they might add Bouye in FA, etc. Their OL sucks, but this doesn't appear to be a strong draft for that, plus they acquired Branden Albert to be their LT. They have the WRs. Makes sense to me.

Originally posted by ninersrule4:
If Cleveland take Myles this is my pick.

I think we would have to take a QB, but I think this is highly likely as well. Noticed no HB's being mentioned in Free Agency for us so far.

Originally posted by FL9er:
The Jaguars should draft him. They are trying to justify that Blake Bortles is a franchise QB. They have invested heavily in their defense over the last 3 years really including the secondary; Ramsey, Church, they might add Bouye in FA, etc. Their OL sucks, but this doesn't appear to be a strong draft for that, plus they acquired Branden Albert to be their LT. They have the WRs. Makes sense to me.

Jags are in such an awkward place right now. They spent so much money on their defense so drafting defenders high could be out of the question. Their wrs are pretty solid even if they didn't do too well last season. I don't think Yeldon is terrible its his o-line that is s**t. Guys like Bortles are reasons why franchises get held back so long. They invest in a guy until they accept that hes not good. Plus no good linemen that justifies a top pick.

Originally posted by valrod33:
If we are gonna draft a RB id rather we trade back and get McCaffrey

nah bro hes white

Leonard Fournette went from potential disaster to dynamite at NFL combine

Give Leonard Fournette this: The former LSU running back placed lipstick on possible disaster at the NFL combine and turned the experience into a reason to be bullish about his future.

First, there was a stench after Fournette weighed in at 240 pounds, which made him the heaviest of the event's running backs. But the prospect chased the stink and yanked a rabbit from a top hat when he ran a 4.51 40-yard dash under the brightest of lights.

A major magic trick. A marvelous way to dash big doubts.

"To go out and run a 4.5 40 at 240 pounds and the type of running back he is, teams are going to be really happy with that," said Gordon McGuinness, lead SEC writer for Pro Football Focus. "That's a great boost for him in what could have been quite a bad weekend, based on how some of the things were going. For him to run a 4.5 at 240 pounds, teams are absolutely going to love that. I think it shows a tremendous amount of power."

Believe it: Fournette's NFL draft stock avoided major damage during his encounter with the Indianapolis microscope. That's a huge flip after many observers flipped out following the player's weigh-in.

Go ahead, slide Fournette into the "winners" column as the countdown continues before the first round on April 27 in Philadelphia. During a situation when Fournette could have sunk faster than a kitchen sink dropped into the sea, the former Tigers star found a way to keep his eyes above water.

"He ran well," said Dan Shonka, a longtime NFL scout and general manager at Ourlads.com. "The scouts knew that he didn't have great hands. … And that's something he's got to work on. Right now, I think teams would be looking at him as a two-down back. But he's a powerful guy. There's no perfect player anytime. And he's got an injury history that you've got to consider because of his running style. But that being said, he worked out. What he did at the combine and his interviews were very positive."

Big, fat opportunity

The NFL combine can be a confusing monster. There's a benefit to seeing prospects put through their paces in what amounts to a beefed-up high school gym class broadcast to the pigskin-loving world.

Still, the drills and the numbers can produce mixed signals, and Fournette's weigh-in became an uh-oh moment that led to hairy headlines. His 28.5-inch vertical jump also allowed critics to cackle.

At a time when prospects want to polish their reputations for potential employers, Fournette seemed to deliver a face plant.

Fortunately for him, there was recovery. And the rave reviews followed.

"I thought he might be a guy who runs in the 4.6s, and that would have been a pretty bad weekend for him all around," McGuinness said. "The fact that he can run a 4.5 — he's not going to be a dynamic pass catcher in the NFL, he's not going to be a superstar three-down running back — he's going to be the guy who does a ton of work for you on first and second down and really sustain drives.

"So he doesn't need to run a 4.3, 4.4 40-yard dash. He needed to run in the 4.5s just to show that he had enough speed and enough raw athleticism to be an impact. Teams know how powerful he is. We've seen his running style over the past two years. The fact that he can run at 4.5 just kind of solidifies the fact that he can be a team's primary ball carrier."

After all, teams don't demand perfection. They'll take consistency with a high ceiling and snag those skills with Ted Ginn Jr.-like speed.

Two-down powerhouse

Fournette preserved his reputation as a mini-locomotive who can pound, pound, pound away at defenses, all while leaving open the possibility to grow into more.

That's mission accomplished when tickling teams' imaginations is the name of the game.

"If you want a power, downhill I-formation running back, he's your guy," Shonka said. "He can do that. He's not as versatile as (Dalvin) Cook with being a three-down guy. I think he's got to improve his blocking some. He's a big, strong guy, and he should be able to stick his face in there and light people up and protect your quarterback. I don't think he's afraid to do it. I think he hasn't been asked to do it, so I think he needs to do that.

"He didn't look like a fat, sloppy guy. He's well-built. But I'm not so sure he didn't play at about 235, 237″ pounds at LSU.

From flirting with possible disaster to delivering in the biggest moment, Fournette found a way to scrap and save his NFL draft stock. Now let the dreams begin.

"He can come into the NFL and be a very good early-down runner," McGuinness said. "He might not have the career that Adrian Peterson has had. But if you look at the type of role Peterson played in Minnesota throughout his career, he was a dominant first- and second-down runner. He wasn't that third-down guy, not great in pass protection, not a dynamic pass catcher, and yet he still has had a borderline NFL hall of fame career. Fournette is a guy who I think projects in a similar role and can be a difference-maker in the NFL."

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