NFL draft waiting game: 49ers running back Carlos Hyde happy to be in red and gold

The 2024 NFL Draft has concluded, leaving the San Francisco 49ers with a draft class consisting of eight players—five on defense and three on offense. The coaching staff has shifted its focus to integrating these new additions into their plans for the upcoming season. Concurrently, media experts are delivering their annual assessments, grading each NFL team's latest batch of rookies. Grading players who have yet to play a single NFL snap might seem premature, especially at this early stage of the offseason. Nevertheless, it serves to evaluate how each team addressed its perceived pre-draft needs. Outlined below are the grades assigned by notable analysts and writers in the media and what they had to say about the 49ers' 2024 draft class. Each grade is

San Francisco 49ers general manager John Lynch and head coach Kyle Shanahan spoke to reporters after the second day of the 2024 NFL Draft. Here is everything they had to say. Transcript provided by the San Francisco 49ers Communications staff. We were just on the conference call with OL Dominick Puni and he suggested that you guys are probably looking at him as a guard, obviously he played tackle as well. What's the plan for him? John Lynch: "Yeah, our belief is that we're going to start him on the inside as a guard. But the cool thing about Dominick is, it's not often you can say this about a player, that he can play all five. And we believe that's the case with him. He snapped in practice, he snapped in the Senior Bowl

The San Francisco 49ers added eight new players during the 2024 NFL Draft, which concluded on Saturday. Their initial pick came at the No. 31 overall spot, where they selected former Florida wide receiver Ricky Pearsall in the first round. The 49ers finished their draft after selecting five total offensive players and three defensive players. Below is a complete list of the 49ers' 2024 selections in the order they were drafted. You can click on the names for more information about each new player. Ricky Pearsall, WR Round 1, Pick 31 College: Florida Height: 6-1 Weight:

San Francisco 49ers general manager John Lynch and head coach Kyle Shanahan spoke to reporters at the end of the final day of the 2024 NFL Draft. Here is everything they had to say. Transcript provided by the San Francisco 49ers Communications staff. You really went for experience, didn't you? A lot of guys who played a lot of college football. Was that kind of a philosophy going into this? John Lynch: "We just went with the players that we really liked and appreciated. One thing I used on some of the earlier players was consensus. It was a big Draft where if every avenue of our organization can get behind someone, we felt really good about these guys, really good football players. Starting with [S] Malik [Mustapha] today,