Originally posted by JoseCortez:
J'ayir brown
Jake moody
Cameron latu
Darrel luter
Robert beal
All 2023 niner selections before the rams picked puka in the 5th.
Embarrassing. Keep defending shanalynch
31 other teams passed on Nacua through the first five rounds as well, but it's Lynch and Shanahan who screwed up even though they already had Deebo, Aiyuk and Jennings on the roster with no immediate need for a wide receiver. Not saying they haven't had their share of missteps but ya gotta love how people will go back and cherry pick a player that no one really saw coming and offer that up as proof that the front office is incompetent.
This year's draft looks like it could have been a pretty good one, and the Niners have shown a real eye for talent in the later rounds since Lynch and Shanahan arrived. It's a shame their early round picks have been less impactful. I'm not one to say, "oh, they should have picked this guy or that guy instead", but in retrospect it sure would have been nice to have gotten Tristan Wirfs over Kinlaw, which was a widely discussed option at the time. To my mind that's a bigger miss in the first round than Puka Nacua was in the fifth.
[ Edited by 49ers81 on Sep 10, 2025 at 7:15 AM ]