Rett Cortez

I spelled my name correctly, it's not "Rhett."

[Rett Cortez @LilRettt]

Hi I'm:

🔘Rod
🔘Dave
🔘Rico
🔘Kevin

And I:

⚪️Am a mechanic
⚪️Am a ramp maker
⚪️Am a team manager/videographer
🔘Like to party

[Jim Tomsula's Ghost @tomjimsula49]

Something is rotten in Santa Clara.

The 49ers draft process isn’t just off, it’s systematically broken. The 2026 class is just the latest entry in a 5+ year pattern of pissing down their own leg.

Here's a summary of the 2026 class:
- A 60-pick reach in Round 2.
- A flawed “need” player over higher-upside talent.
- And, of course, the "Shanahan classic:" a RB taken 40-70 spots earlier than expected while premium positions sit untouched.

This isn’t misfortunate. It’s a pronounced, fundamental failure to understand value and evaluate talent. One reach is defensible. Doing it every year, while consistently flaunting the board, is malpractice.

Take Stribling: the Niners passed on higher-graded players at positions of need - Bisontis, T.J. Parker, Kayden McDonald, Cashius Howell, C.J. Allen, Colton Hood (all who went within the next 8-9 picks) - to draft a traits-based WR projected for the middle of Round 3, if not later. Best case, he develops into a good player but contributes nothing this year while immediate impact options at guard or edge go elsewhere.

Then they trade back from 58, passing on players like Anthony Hill and Keyron Crawford, only to land Romello Height, a 25-year-old with a capped ceiling. Even if he produces, the opportunity cost is glaring. You don’t pass on young, ascending talent for marginal contributors unless you’ve got a broken framework for evaluating talent.

And then the signature move: reaching ~60 picks for Kaelon Black. A fine player, sure, but with no distinguishing traits (call him Jordan James redux...but taken 60 picks earlier). A Day 3 back taken on Day 2 while OL (Trey Zuhn, Gennings Dunker), WR (Chris Bell), EDGE (Barham), and S (Jalon Kilgore) talent remained on the board. It’s not just suboptimal, it’s flat-out incoherent.

At some point, this stops being debatable. Under @JohnLynch49ers, this regime has gone 6 drafts without producing a single Pro Bowl player. The results aren’t unlucky; they’re consistent. And consistently mediocre at best (see 2024/2025) and disastrous (2021, 2022 and 2023) at worst.

@JedYork, tolerating this is a choice. And that choice is settling for permanent underachievement. Enough is enough.

cc: @grantcohn @sportslarryk @Chase_Senior @SharpFootball @dieter @hutchdiesel

[Rett Cortez @LilRettt]

@grantcohn Drafting like this after the hope they gave us yesterday is NASTY work. Should’ve expected nothing less from Lynch and Shanahan

[Rett Cortez @LilRettt]

@timkawakami If they are needing a replacement for Guerendo, I get it, go draft an RB. But in the 3rd round for a guy who was projected for the 7th? Objectively, we can call this a terrible pick, right??

[Ron Stewart @RonStewart_]

Shanny & Lynch are doing shrooms in that war room

[WarriorsMuse @WarriorsMuse]

LMAO eleven years later and I still can’t believe no foul was called

[Rett Cortez @LilRettt]

@warriors

[Rett Cortez @LilRettt]

@samesfandiari Warriors FO tonight

[The Warriors Invitational 🏆 @BlqMgck]

The problem has and always has been the FO. And I don't mean Bob nor Dunleavy.

It's been this way ever since the brain drain happened with West getting the boot.

[Alex 👋 @Dubs408]

Flame emoji the worst part here

[The Warriors Invitational 🏆 @BlqMgck]

And I think I stop watching the Warriors this year if and when that happens.

[Rett Cortez @LilRettt]

@AndyKHLiu Rozier is on house arrest what are we doing!?!?

[Rett Cortez @LilRettt]

@warriorsworld

[The Sage @TheBBallSage]

Man .@MontePooleNBCS is the GOAT! Finally someone in the local media saying the TRUTH, #DubNation

[Alex 👋 @Dubs408]

Steph still giving you 40 balls in 2026 but the Warriors were afraid of trading 1st round picks in 2021

[🫵👍 @AndyKHLiu]

49ers finally out of bodies. Good fight all season. See yall next year

[Rett Cortez @LilRettt]

@TommyGunnNBA Lacob’s gonna convince himself he’s too valuable to include in a trade smh

[Rett Cortez @LilRettt]

@JurisBronco

[warriorsworld @warriorsworld]

😭😭😭😭😭😭

[🫵👍 @AndyKHLiu]

Steph the most fun dude to watch in the league in my entire life existence. Not even close.