James Pearce Jr. - Edge - Tennessee | Page 11

49oz2superbowl · 2025-01-10T13:04:17-08:00

It's safe to say we will be out of the Abdul Carter and Mason Graham sweepstakes picking at 11. There's a small chance that either Kelvin Banks, Will Campbell or Will Johnson fall which would be the next most natural picks based on value and need - absolute slam dunks. The 2 most likely options to me that would be the next best choices are Tyler Warren / Malaki Stark (debatable given position value) OR the clear cut next best DL who by draft day will be........ James Pearce Jr. Pearce Jr. is the closest thing to Brian Burns since Brian Burns entered the NFL. He's a bit on the lean size, incredibly explosive, can bend the edge as well as any edge in the draft, has a wide array of pass rush moves, and leads every pass rush efficiency metric. Outside of Abdul Carter he's the only player in this draft I feel confident about being a 10+ sack per year player. He had 10 sacks last year and stock dropped a bit with 7.5 this year but unlike many of these other guys all of his sacks were against top SEC competition. Biggest reason for his dip was he only played a handful of snaps in 4 games against cupcake teams. Biggest knocks on him would be his weight (243 vs Burns who was 249) and playing a bit too agressive / out of control at times which caused him to miss some tackles on the qb leaving sacks on the table. I don't think his number (27) does him any favors making him look like a DB but those - much like it was for Brian Burns - are fixable and overblown as an edge rusher. If you look at most draft-niks today they'll have 3 other edges over him (not including Abdul Carter) but IMO the offseason will sort through this.... Mykel Williams - Great athlete but so raw and lacks basic pass rush repertoire - complete boom / bust gamble that's a rd 1 fit for a team with that appetite but rich for pick 11., Nic Scourton - A run stuffing DE with limited pass rush ability - laughable to me that he'd even be considered in the top 15 as can see him falling to rd 2 Jalon Walker - Very productive if you're stat watching but so rarely flashes and dominates individually, seems like a high motor chase guy on a great defense which also wouldn't touch in rd 1. If we can't come away with any of the blue chip guys at positions of need then this is the player I would bet the bank on becoming a blue chip player in the NFL.

Feb 8, 2026 at 7:28 AM

#151

FredFlintstone
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Oh man the uproar here if Lynch took the good pass rusher with a massive character concern

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Feb 8, 2026 at 8:06 AM

#152

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Originally posted by SanDiego49er:

Originally posted by 49oz2superbowl:
Once again the experts in the 49ers front office would have been better going with a webzone favorite the first 2 days of the draft. Getting awfully tired of this s**t - taking project "scheme fits" in round 1 that don't pan out over proven productive players.

Pearce finished his rookie year with 10.5 sacks. The most in a rookie season since Micah Parsons. We absolutely need exactly this right now.

It's so dumb. Lynch and Shany are just awful. I'm so tired of them. I don't think you can win with them. Just terrible in the draft.

Hello guys. Care to comment?

Feb 8, 2026 at 8:47 AM

#153

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Originally posted by miked1978:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:

Originally posted by 49oz2superbowl:
Once again the experts in the 49ers front office would have been better going with a webzone favorite the first 2 days of the draft. Getting awfully tired of this s**t - taking project "scheme fits" in round 1 that don't pan out over proven productive players.

Pearce finished his rookie year with 10.5 sacks. The most in a rookie season since Micah Parsons. We absolutely need exactly this right now.

It's so dumb. Lynch and Shany are just awful. I'm so tired of them. I don't think you can win with them. Just terrible in the draft.

Hello guys. Care to comment?

They would only be here if it was a 49ers player.

Feb 8, 2026 at 9:39 AM

#154

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Originally posted by LifelongNiner:

Originally posted by miked1978:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:

Originally posted by 49oz2superbowl:
Once again the experts in the 49ers front office would have been better going with a webzone favorite the first 2 days of the draft. Getting awfully tired of this s**t - taking project "scheme fits" in round 1 that don't pan out over proven productive players.

Pearce finished his rookie year with 10.5 sacks. The most in a rookie season since Micah Parsons. We absolutely need exactly this right now.

It's so dumb. Lynch and Shany are just awful. I'm so tired of them. I don't think you can win with them. Just terrible in the draft.

Hello guys. Care to comment?

They would only be here if it was a 49ers player.

I don't understand the psyche behind some of these fans. I mean kudos to 49oz for originally proposing Pearce to everyone. But why so much hate and criticism of the 49ers FO after the fact? And San Diego - the dude was against Pearce initially if you look at his comments yet he does the same thing - wants to s**t on the 49ers FO for 'supposedly' making a mistake. I mean - I probably have the greatest hypothetical draft pick of all time recorded but I never once went around saying dumbass Shannylynch should have listened to me, what an incompetent FO. Even that douche Grant Cohn did this with respect to Mahomes, 10 years later. Hindsight can be extremely unreliable. There are so many factors involved that determine if a player will succeed with an organization.Props to the 49ers FO for sticking to their guns and staying away from players with character concerns.

I wonder what Baldy is thinking now.

[ Edited by 49erKing on Feb 9, 2026 at 3:50 PM ]

Feb 10, 2026 at 6:22 PM

#155

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Originally posted by miked1978:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:

Originally posted by 49oz2superbowl:
Once again the experts in the 49ers front office would have been better going with a webzone favorite the first 2 days of the draft. Getting awfully tired of this s**t - taking project "scheme fits" in round 1 that don't pan out over proven productive players.

Pearce finished his rookie year with 10.5 sacks. The most in a rookie season since Micah Parsons. We absolutely need exactly this right now.

It's so dumb. Lynch and Shany are just awful. I'm so tired of them. I don't think you can win with them. Just terrible in the draft.

Hello guys. Care to comment?

Not all choir boys in the NFL, sometimes you just gotta get dawgs........i think I heard that somewhere before. Funny how quite a few of these character concern guys have great careers...Moss, Sapp, Tyreek Hill, to name few. 49ers just gun-shy after Aldon and Foster.

Feb 10, 2026 at 7:24 PM

#156

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Originally posted by Rathof44:

Originally posted by miked1978:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:

Originally posted by 49oz2superbowl:
Once again the experts in the 49ers front office would have been better going with a webzone favorite the first 2 days of the draft. Getting awfully tired of this s**t - taking project "scheme fits" in round 1 that don't pan out over proven productive players.

Pearce finished his rookie year with 10.5 sacks. The most in a rookie season since Micah Parsons. We absolutely need exactly this right now.

It's so dumb. Lynch and Shany are just awful. I'm so tired of them. I don't think you can win with them. Just terrible in the draft.

Hello guys. Care to comment?
Not all choir boys in the NFL, sometimes you just gotta get dawgs........i think I heard that somewhere before. Funny how quite a few of these character concern guys have great careers...Moss, Sapp, Tyreek Hill, to name few. 49ers just gun-shy after Aldon and Foster.

Those guys are the exception to the rule. For every randy moss, there are 50 Ruben fosters

Feb 10, 2026 at 7:49 PM

#157

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Originally posted by Rathof44:

Originally posted by miked1978:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:

Originally posted by 49oz2superbowl:
Once again the experts in the 49ers front office would have been better going with a webzone favorite the first 2 days of the draft. Getting awfully tired of this s**t - taking project "scheme fits" in round 1 that don't pan out over proven productive players.

Pearce finished his rookie year with 10.5 sacks. The most in a rookie season since Micah Parsons. We absolutely need exactly this right now.

It's so dumb. Lynch and Shany are just awful. I'm so tired of them. I don't think you can win with them. Just terrible in the draft.

Hello guys. Care to comment?
Not all choir boys in the NFL, sometimes you just gotta get dawgs........i think I heard that somewhere before. Funny how quite a few of these character concern guys have great careers...Moss, Sapp, Tyreek Hill, to name few. 49ers just gun-shy after Aldon and Foster.

And there are many whose names we'd never remember.

Feb 11, 2026 at 7:32 AM

#158

Rathof44
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Originally posted by frenchmov:

Originally posted by Rathof44:

Originally posted by miked1978:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:

Originally posted by 49oz2superbowl:
Once again the experts in the 49ers front office would have been better going with a webzone favorite the first 2 days of the draft. Getting awfully tired of this s**t - taking project "scheme fits" in round 1 that don't pan out over proven productive players.

Pearce finished his rookie year with 10.5 sacks. The most in a rookie season since Micah Parsons. We absolutely need exactly this right now.

It's so dumb. Lynch and Shany are just awful. I'm so tired of them. I don't think you can win with them. Just terrible in the draft.

Hello guys. Care to comment?
Not all choir boys in the NFL, sometimes you just gotta get dawgs........i think I heard that somewhere before. Funny how quite a few of these character concern guys have great careers...Moss, Sapp, Tyreek Hill, to name few. 49ers just gun-shy after Aldon and Foster.

Those guys are the exception to the rule. For every randy moss, there are 50 Ruben fosters

Probably not 50, maybe 20 overall. If you're are 5th rounder with 5th round talent/skill set and you have character concerns you're not getting drafted anyway. For guys with first round talent, that ratio is much closer.

Feb 12, 2026 at 7:12 AM

#159

Hoovtrain
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Gotta love how SD has just completely tucked tail and acts like Pearce doesn't even exist now. Par for the course

Feb 12, 2026 at 8:35 AM

#160

NYniner85
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Originally posted by Hoovtrain:
Gotta love how SD has just completely tucked tail and acts like Pearce doesn't even exist now. Par for the course

Feb 12, 2026 at 9:54 AM

#161

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We'll never know if Lynch chose Williams over Pearce due to character, but I've seen Zion Young mocked at #27 and he has some red flags too. I'm guessing his draft stock takes a hit now.

Feb 21, 2026 at 9:58 AM

#162

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Burn

Feb 21, 2026 at 5:23 PM

#163

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Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by Hoovtrain:
Gotta love how SD has just completely tucked tail and acts like Pearce doesn't even exist now. Par for the course

Some things never change