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Grading 49ers 2021 draft

The 49ers Webzone has helped me enjoy the draft. I am really interested in how well the 49ers draft. Is Lynch good? As you know, anyone can grade a draft. People grade based on college output and what they think a teams needs. I wanted a judge the the 2021 draft more like an economist, than a super-fan. I created 2 drafts to compare to our 2021 draft. The first one shows the players taken with the 49ers original picks, the players the 49ers could have taken if they did not trade. The second draft is the best player available in the position that we drafted. Example, the 49ers drafted Trey Lance with the number 3 pick, according to PFF, Justin Fields was the best quarterback available at that point to the draft. I have included snap count and PFF score.

2021 draft snaps score
3 Trey Lance 179 - 60
48 Aaron Banks 54 - 56
88 Trey Sermon 168 - 64
102 Ambry Thomas 582 - 57
155 Jaylon Moore 157 - 59
172. Deommodore Lenoir 396 - 54
180. Talanoa Hufanga 667 - 64
194. Elijah Mitchell 553 - 77

Players taken at the 49ers original draft picks (No trades for Lance, Banks, and Sermon)
Original 2021 Picks snaps score
12. Micah Parsons, ED/LB 960 - 90
43. Trevon Moehrig, S 1214 - 72
102. Thomas
117 Bobby Brown, DI 29 - 65
155 Moore
172 Lenoir
180 Hufanga
194 Mitchell
230 Jimmy Morrissey, C 258 - 20

Best Player Available at the Position the 49ers Drafted
Best Available snaps score
3 Justin Fields, QB 634 - 64
48 Wyatt Davis, G 0 - 0
88 Michael Carter, RB 449 - 71
102 Tay Gowan, CB 44 - 61
155 Stone Forsythe, T 14 - 68
172 Thomas Graham, CB 112 - 84
180 Hamsah Nasirildeen, S/LB 60 - 28
194 Khalil Herbert, RB 312 - 79

I found this information interesting. There are a few more versions of comparisons I did. Please let me know what you think. Did Lynch do well? Which version do you like. Is this information interesting.to you. I am planning on doing this again for the 2022 draft. Thanks
[ Edited by PFFFF on Apr 16, 2022 at 11:10 AM ]
This draft has massive potential to be VERY good. (minus Sermon; he sucks)
What's crazy is if we didn't make the lance trade(which I'm happy with) we could have taken someone like parsons and won the super bowl 🤷🏻‍♂️
Or even slater
Or even Mac Jones.
By this math Fields was a better option than Lance and Herbert was a better option than Mitchell?
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