49ers trade No. 12 pick for Tua Tagovailoa in PFF mock draft

Pro Football Focus released its latest mock draft. Eric Eager and George Chahrouri have the San Francisco 49ers trading out of the No. 12 spot and adding a few more picks in the process. The Washington Football Team uses the selection to add quarterback Mac Jones of Alabama after the Pro Football Focus duo has the top four quarterback prospects — Trevor Lawrence, Zach Wilson, Justin Fields, and Trey Lance — gone by pick No. 9. That moves San Francisco down to No. 19, where the team selects cornerback Jaycee Horn of South

Anthony Treash of Pro Football Focus calls former Florida tight end Kyle Pitts a "generational" prospect leading up to the reveal of the analytics site's latest mock draft — a two-round affair. He notes that his selections don't necessarily predict what he believes NFL teams will do in the upcoming draft, but what he would do if he were making each of the selections for each organization. Treash has Pitts lasting until the No. 12 overall pick, where the San Francisco 49ers are slated to make their first selection, and sees the tight end as a good addition to Kyle Shanahan's

Last month, Pro Football Focus identified defensive tackle Solomon Thomas as the San Francisco 49ers' biggest draft mistake over the past five years. It obviously hasn't been all bad in the eyes of the analytics site, though. Analyst Michael Renner just identified the best draft decision for each NFL team in the past five years and selected tight end George Kittle for the Niners. "This is a pick that's so much of an outlier it has to earn this distinction," wrote Renner. "With 4.52 speed and an 11-foot broad jump, Kittle really should never

Mock drafts are a dime a dozen this time of year, and most of them wind up projecting something unexciting that has already been projected several times before. But every once in a while, a mock draft comes along that is interesting enough to single out and discuss on its own, like this one from Ryan Fowler of The Draft Network. Fowler put together a complete seven-round mock for the 49ers using The Draft Network's endlessly entertaining Mock Draft Machine and came up with an intriguing list of players that includes two of college football's biggest offensive stars over the past two seasons. The first is quarterback Justin Fields of Ohio State, whom Fowler has going to the 49ers in Round 1. The second