Walter Nolen IDL Ole Miss

Originally posted by 49erBigMac:
I've heard that he's selfish and motivated to earn money. In always wary of that. He'll be a first round pick, to some that's enough money, it's likely he'll earn a 2nd contract. Then will he stop working hard?

I want guys who love the game and want to be the greatest ever. Those guys never stop working, I don't hear that from Nolen.

We have one of those.....his name is Nick Bosa.

Originally posted by Monsterniner:

Originally posted by 49erBigMac:
I've heard that he's selfish and motivated to earn money. In always wary of that. He'll be a first round pick, to some that's enough money, it's likely he'll earn a 2nd contract. Then will he stop working hard?

I want guys who love the game and want to be the greatest ever. Those guys never stop working, I don't hear that from Nolen.

We have one of those.....his name is Nick Bosa.

Absolutely not, the Bosa's want to make a lot of money whilst going on to be the greatest ever DE. The work they put in can't be questioned

Oh I would love a player motivated by money. Ball out and make the niners pay you a s**tload of money. Great problem to have vs. the kinlaw/solomans of the world

Visiting SF

Originally posted by NYniner85:
Visiting SF

#OleMiss DT Walter Nolen, one of the Draft's top players at his position, is visiting the #Bengals today, source said. He's also had the #Cowboys and #Panthers, and heads to the #AZCardinals and #49ers after that.

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) April 7, 2025

yessss,... and that's their second,.... which very probably means that they have dismissed the "character issues"

seems that they have shifted strategy with the 30-visit,... these past years they focussed on expected Day-3 pickings but this year they are meeting wth expected first and second rounders, mainly... Nolen, M. Williams, K. Banks, Lott, TJ Sanders, Landon Jackson
and they used to select from these visits a lot

Oh, and thanks for posting this @Steph49K list, is very complete

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12HlN1EXFos32jOjVvJpCDvrlXhQ4wRamVDMompZAJ_8/htmlview

Originally posted by replikante:
yessss,... and that's their second,.... which very probably means that they have dismissed the "character issues"

seems that they have shifted strategy with the 30-visit,... these past years they focussed on expected Day-3 pickings but this year they are meeting wth expected first and second rounders, mainly... Nolen, M. Williams, K. Banks, Lott, TJ Sanders, Landon Jackson
and they used to select from these visits a lot

Oh, and thanks for posting this @Steph49K list, is very complete

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12HlN1EXFos32jOjVvJpCDvrlXhQ4wRamVDMompZAJ_8/htmlview

Players aren't brought in for a visit because their concerns have been dismissed. They're brought in to further dig into those issues.

Originally posted by NYniner85:
Visiting SF

#OleMiss DT Walter Nolen, one of the Draft's top players at his position, is visiting the #Bengals today, source said. He's also had the #Cowboys and #Panthers, and heads to the #AZCardinals and #49ers after that.

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) April 7, 2025

in a second reading,... what da f*ck are the panthers doing there? can he go as high as nº8? that would hurt

and if Cowboys-nº12, Cardinals-nº16 and Bengals-nº17 are all interested,... it makes very unfeassible to try to trade down hoping to still pick Nolen

Originally posted by replikante:
in a second reading,... what da f*ck are the panthers doing there? can he go as high as nº8? that would hurt

and if Cowboys-nº12, Cardinals-nº16 and Bengals-nº17 are all interested,... it makes very unfeassible to try to trade down hoping to still pick Nolen

Trading down is only a thing if a team is willing to move up and it's good with you too (comp/draft slot)

if they love Nolen/Williams/Harmon or whoever just take him. IMO this draft doesn't have much for blue chip guys. After those couple players are gone. Just get your guy. the whole I don't want him at 11 but would be good at 15 is silly. You got a top 20 grade on a guy, it's not really that much of a "reach" if you get them at 11 imo.

Originally posted by Heroism:
Players aren't brought in for a visit because their concerns have been dismissed. They're brought in to further dig into those issues.

yeah,... but this is their second meeting,... which means that in the first one they didn't find anything enough important to dismiss him,... they can still dismiss him? yeah, sure,... but I think now it's more improbable

Originally posted by replikante:

Originally posted by Heroism:
Players aren't brought in for a visit because their concerns have been dismissed. They're brought in to further dig into those issues.

yeah,... but this is their second meeting,... which means that in the first one they didn't find anything enough important to dismiss him,... they can still dismiss him? yeah, sure,... but I think now it's more improbable

I mean the first visit was just at the combine…top 30 visit is much different

Originally posted by replikante:
yeah,... but this is their second meeting,... which means that in the first one they didn't find anything enough important to dismiss him,... they can still dismiss him? yeah, sure,... but I think now it's more improbable

They met with Reuben Foster multiple times and were in contact with him daily because of the character concerns. You can take it to the bank that they're exhausting all avenues to address any character concerns surrounding Walter Nolan.

I don't think you can infer much about off-field concerns from the 49ers meeting with players other than the team is showing interest in that player.

Originally posted by NYniner85:
I mean the first visit was just at the combine…top 30 visit is much different

yeah, exactly. Those first meetings are quick and short. The private visits are a lot more intimate and exhaustive where they can poke, prod and dig deeper into any concerns.

The 49ers never met with McGlinchey because they had nothing to address with him.

Originally posted by Heroism:

Originally posted by replikante:
yeah,... but this is their second meeting,... which means that in the first one they didn't find anything enough important to dismiss him,... they can still dismiss him? yeah, sure,... but I think now it's more improbable

They met with Reuben Foster multiple times and were in contact with him daily because of the character concerns. You can take it to the bank that they're exhausting all avenues to address any character concerns surrounding Walter Nolan.

I don't think you can infer much about off-field concerns from the 49ers meeting with players other than the team is showing interest in that player.

What off the field concerns? I've heard nothing of this, but Nolen is from Memphis, even though he doesn't claim it. I swear, between this guy and Pearce, I am suddenly hearing about all of these "concerns" that weren't there when they were being recruited, or playing for their college teams. I followed both guys recruitment as a Vols fan, was bummed they lost out on Nolen, but stoked they landed Pearce. I'm telling you guys, our local sports news media would have been all over either one of them if that were the actual case. If there had been "concerns" with two highly recruited guys like those two, I would've read about them before a month before the NFL draft they are both going high in. Seems fishy.

Originally posted by Memphis9er:
What off the field concerns? I've heard nothing of this, but Nolen is from Memphis, even though he doesn't claim it. I swear, between this guy and Pearce, I am suddenly hearing about all of these "concerns" that weren't there when they were being recruited, or playing for their college teams. I followed both guys recruitment as a Vols fan, was bummed they lost out on Nolen, but stoked they landed Pearce. I'm telling you guys, our local sports news media would have been all over either one of them if that were the actual case. If there had been "concerns" with two highly recruited guys like those two, I would've read about them before a month before the NFL draft they are both going high in. Seems fishy.

The character concerns have been reported for awhile now, but I haven't seen anything specific.

On this topic--hate to circle back to Reuben Foster, but a lot of people on here tried to downplay or flat out deny the the reports that arose of character concerns for Reuben. Just because you're a fan of college team doesn't mean you're plugged into who these players are as people.

I vividly remember a very prominent poster on here defending Reuben Foster because he was from Alabama and never heard a bad thing about Reuben. Meanwhile, I deduced Reuben was a scumbag by simply scrolling through his Instagram.

Originally posted by Memphis9er:

Originally posted by Heroism:

Originally posted by replikante:
yeah,... but this is their second meeting,... which means that in the first one they didn't find anything enough important to dismiss him,... they can still dismiss him? yeah, sure,... but I think now it's more improbable

They met with Reuben Foster multiple times and were in contact with him daily because of the character concerns. You can take it to the bank that they're exhausting all avenues to address any character concerns surrounding Walter Nolan.

I don't think you can infer much about off-field concerns from the 49ers meeting with players other than the team is showing interest in that player.

What off the field concerns? I've heard nothing of this, but Nolen is from Memphis, even though he doesn't claim it. I swear, between this guy and Pearce, I am suddenly hearing about all of these "concerns" that weren't there when they were being recruited, or playing for their college teams. I followed both guys recruitment as a Vols fan, was bummed they lost out on Nolen, but stoked they landed Pearce. I'm telling you guys, our local sports news media would have been all over either one of them if that were the actual case. If there had been "concerns" with two highly recruited guys like those two, I would've read about them before a month before the NFL draft they are both going high in. Seems fishy.

Pretty sure making things up on a players career is slander, no nfl team is making things up to try and get some one to drop, the ramifications would be significant could even be sued, lose draft picks, and destroy trust among players. Can anyone give me an example of a team doing this? Where there's smoke there is fire. That being said I like Nolan's potential and wouldn't be mad drafting him but would be errie. There have been monsters like Ndamukong Suh and Warren Sapp that had character concerns.