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[Luke @Luke_Barrow_7]

@colincowherd magnesium glycinate for sleep Colin. Lol

[Football Crave @FootballCravee]

Jaxson Dart was asked if he was concerned he’ll lose support for supporting Donald Trump:

“I don’t think many blue hairs watch the NFL if we’re being honest.”

[Complex @Complex]

Hilary Duff makes her Sports Illustrated Swimsuit debut in the 2026 issue 🔥

[📸: @kat_in_nyc ]

[Luke @Luke_Barrow_7]

@FFDynastyGrill Dont remind me dude. Too many drafts I took him at 1.08

[49er_Edits @49er_edits]

#49ers Top 10 Plays from 2025. Agree or Disagree and why? #NFL

[Luke @Luke_Barrow_7]

@DynastyNerds

[Luke @Luke_Barrow_7]

@FantasyPros Chris bell, Striplin, Jonah coleman, singleton, Ted hurst, jakobi lane, Malachi fields, Branch, Sky Bell. Germie Bernard. You guys are complaining so hard lots of talent on the board

[Luke @Luke_Barrow_7]

@lukesawhook That's a great haul

[Luke @Luke_Barrow_7]

@FFDynastyTrades I'd take the pics and run

[Luke @Luke_Barrow_7]

@JoshNorris If I wanst for his injury he would have been a 3 round pick

[Luke @Luke_Barrow_7]

@Quintorris_ 2.02

[Luke @Luke_Barrow_7]

@GuruFantasyWrld I took Stowers at 2.01. And Delp at 3.07 🫡

[East Bay Chris @EastBayChris]

All these 49ers draft picks got me so mad, not even a Dianna Russini blowjob would make me feel better.

[Luke @Luke_Barrow_7]

@SleeperNFL Hes gonna be a 2nd round pick.

[Dave Kluge @DaveKluge]

Tony Pollard and Tyjae Spears are both on expiring deals.

Nick Singleton can take this year to fully recover from his broken foot with a chance to earn the starting job next year. Can't imagine a better taxi stash in dynasty leagues.

[Andy Holloway @AndyHolloway]

How drunk is this draft?

[John Chapman @JL_Chapman]

49ers fans getting ready for day three of the NFL Draft

[JJ Zachariason @LateRoundQB]

Kaelon Black, Jordan James, Isaac Guerendo, Ty Davis-Price, Trey Sermon, Elijah Mitchell, and Joe Williams. Those are the RB picks for San Francisco since Kyle Shanahan got there.

When you compare NFL Mock Draft Database projected draft capital to actual draft capital, the only player who wasn't considered a reach was Elijah Mitchell. Every other one was a reach, per Chase Stuart's draft value chart.

Davis-Price, Black, and Joe Williams are 3 of the 6 biggest non-Round 1 reaches in my database since 2016, when the mock draft data became available.

It's just wild that this keeps happening. Hopefully Black bucks the trend.

[Dynasty Zoltan @DynastyZoltanFF]

I watched 23 receivers, and have no idea who Caleb Douglas is

[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