🏈 2026 NFL ENTRY DRAFT 🏈-Do not tip picks!

Originally posted by btthepunk:

Originally posted by Kolohe:

Originally posted by jds_49ers:

Originally posted by Kolohe:
I can't get over passing on Jaishawn Barham then almost immediately after Dallas drafts him!!!! Nope nope let me go, I just can't get over that s**t!!!

The problem with this thinking is you dont even know if Jaishawn Barham was on the 9ers board. There is a good chance they never considered drafting him ever.

Barham was brought in for a top 30 visit.

Maybe that made them take him off their board?

Or more likely he was just a slot or two below Height on their board at EDGE.

It's ok if Raheem had Height higher than Barham.

What I'm really curious about is Crawford who went #66. Wonder if we still take Height if Crawford was also there at #70. I really hope so or that would kinda suck

Give me Hecht at 108.

Originally posted by Kolohe:

Originally posted by jds_49ers:

Originally posted by Kolohe:

Originally posted by 49ers808:

Originally posted by Kolohe:
I can't get over passing on Jaishawn Barham then almost immediately after Dallas drafts him!!!! Nope nope let me go, I just can't get over that s**t!!!

I feel you man. Dallas literally having a draft Id absolutely love

And that pisses me off, Dallas is having a frickin amazing draft, Caleb Downs + Malachi Lawrence. They wanna beat San Francisco, that's a damn god start. But f**k you Dallas!!!!

Its all on paper, how often do we hear such and such had an amazing draft and 3 years later, eh it really wasnt that good. Browns are a prime example of this, hear they had an amazing draft and get 6 wins. Its not about stats on paper. Fit matters.

Stop being a homer, 49ers have had bad drafts too, not to mention made some terrible decisions.

Im not saying if their draft is good or bad, and you no one will know for 3-5 years from now. What im saying is I am trusting a staff that gets paid millions to do this over some internet keyboard warriors. Have the 9ers had horrible picks before, of course. All teams have. The fact if 50% of these kids will be forgotten about in a year.

Originally posted by adrianlesnar:

Originally posted by Giedi:

Originally posted by adrianlesnar:
If we wanted a quick separator, Stribling is not that. And you made my point. Hes a great addition to the team. But not over other options at 27, 30 or 33. It doesnt really matter if we like him more than Bernard or Boston, because we aren't bidding vs ourselves. It matters if we move down 8 spots, will someone else draft him with the other players also on the board. And if hes soooo good you cant risk it, then I get it. But id question why they are evaluating Stribling as a must-draft cant miss prospect. And id argue that they didn't anyway, or they wouldn't have risked trading down twice first. Nothing lines up with any logical sense.

For Barham, we'll never know, but ill go to the grave saying he will have had an equally or more productive rookie season than Height.

Im a process over results guy. And when go back and realize we haven't drafted a single game changing player since Brock Purdy, you start to realize this process isnt leading to results.

Well the results were that we were 12-5 in 2023 and dropped to 6-10 in 2024 and moved back up to 12-5 in 2025 and made the playoffs despite not drafting a single game changing player. Now having said that, I'm not totally happy with the picks either, but I think the draft is just one third of the process. The other two thirds are trades and the free agency. I don't look at the draft in total isolation. I look at the draft as part of the overall offseason talent acquisition process. For example - where would we be last year if ShanaLynch didn't sign free agent Mac Jones.

No offense, but this is not a valuable post or line of thinking.

Why even draft at all then? It clearly hasn't caused us to lose games (even tho we were at a huge talent disadvantage vs Seattle and are generally thought to have been coached well above our talent level--imagine same coaching, better talent). And it clearly is only a part of the process. /sarcasm. You basically argued that game changing players dont matter.

here go the guards

Originally posted by blunt_probe:
here go the guards

They need a punter they aren't concerned.

Originally posted by MadDog49er:
Give me Hecht at 108.

this or parker

Originally posted by DaleGribble:

Originally posted by blunt_probe:
here go the guards

They need a punter they aren't concerned.

lol

Originally posted by blunt_probe:
here go the guards

It's funny how teams are always picking OLinemen before we pick!

Originally posted by Ezekiel38:
Proctor goes to the Cards... would have loved him at 107

Im sure Raheem would have as well!

here comes the dissapointment

Originally posted by DaleGribble:

Originally posted by blunt_probe:

here go the guards

They need a punter they aren't concerned.

Oh, I know. I'm just hoping it's not the first 4th rounder that they spend it on.

They just traded Dee Winters; Nick Martin hasn't shown a damn thing. I wouldn't be mad at Kyle Louis.

OLine please!

Originally posted by Dshearn:

Originally posted by adrianlesnar:

Im a process over results guy. And when go back and realize we haven't drafted a single game changing player since Brock Purdy, you start to realize this process isnt leading to results.

I hear this a ton at work, and it is a popular thing to say, right up until the point you judge it by results. That makes you a results guy. Process people do not care about the end results period. They care about a check list getting checked off come hell or highwater, that is the success for them...

There is no process for the NFL draft...we have decades of data that show that.

You're smart enough to know what I mean.

You're smart enough to know rhe purpose of process is to foster an environment for consistently favorable results. If results didn't matter at all, process would be rendered completely irrelevant.

But if my desired result is to hit a bullseye on a dart board more often than the other guy, and the other guy puts on a blind fold, goes into a sensory deprivation tank, comes out and spins in a circle ten times and then throws up a prayer and hits a bullseye, I wouldnt consider than a sound process despite achieving the desired result.