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The San Francisco 49ers selected former Florida wide receiver Ricky Pearsall with the No. 31 overall pick. General manager John Lynch and head coach Kyle Shanahan spoke after the selection. Here is everything they had to say. Transcript provided by the San Francisco 49ers Communications staff. Opening Comments: John Lynch: "You guys have fun? Yeah. Long day. Long day. Excited about our pick. Go ahead. Shoot." Just the rationale. Why did you pick him? You guys have a lot of needs and what made you guys focus in on him? JL: "We know we do well when we have consensus in our group. And that's from scouting, coaching, R&D, and we really had that with [WR] Ricky [Pearsall]. He's a guy who,

New San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall spoke to reporters after becoming the No. 31 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft. Here is everything he had to say. Transcript provided by the San Francisco 49ers Communications staff. Did you have an inkling that the 49ers were this interested in you to take you in the first round? What were your interactions with them leading up to this? "I think the only time I actually met with them was during the Senior Bowl when you're kind of doing like the little speed dating meetings. So that's really the only time I really got to talk to them. But as far as that, I didn't really have too much conversation and contact with them. My agent was trying to contact them leading up,

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

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,