2024 NFL Draft prospects

[CrimsonCrew]

Read an article on the Niners' 2022 draft class. What a disaster that draft is looking like, outside of Purdy (who, to be fair, single-handedly makes it). Drake Jackson, Ty Davis-Price, Danny Gray, Spencer Burford, Samuel Womack, Nick Zakelj, Kalia Davis, and Tariq Castro-Fields. There's a legit chance none of these guys are on the roster to start the 2025 season, and a slew of them may not make the roster this year.

Reminds me of the 2012 draft class. A big fail

Similar, but in that draft we blew a first-round pick on one of the least impactful first rounders (the least?) in franchise history. And again, we got Purdy in 2022, which effectively offsets any other bad picks. No one in 2012 made any real impact, though Joe Looney went on to have a solid career elsewhere.

[clyde21]

Read an article on the Niners' 2022 draft class. What a disaster that draft is looking like, outside of Purdy (who, to be fair, single-handedly makes it). Drake Jackson, Ty Davis-Price, Danny Gray, Spencer Burford, Samuel Womack, Nick Zakelj, Kalia Davis, and Tariq Castro-Fields. There's a legit chance none of these guys are on the roster to start the 2025 season, and a slew of them may not make the roster this year.

Reminds me of the 2012 draft class. A big fail

Similar, but in that draft we blew a first-round pick on one of the least impactful first rounders (the least?) in franchise history. And again, we got Purdy in 2022, which effectively offsets any other bad picks. No one in 2012 made any real impact, though Joe Looney went on to have a solid career elsewhere.

we're just not a great drafting team, institutional knowledge doesn't exist here like it does in Baltimore or even Dallas, we're lucky we got a couple of great coaches (Harbaugh/Kyle) to make the best out of it, otherwise the last 20 years or so we've had some pretty damn bad classes, probably dating back to Alex Smith > Aaron Rodgers

[CrimsonCrew]

Yeah, McCloughan crushed a couple drafts, especially 2007, but since he left it's been more bad than good, seemingly. This FO has been pretty awful in the first three rounds. Only Aiyuk and Warner have been really good picks across the board (factoring in value, production, etc.). Obviously Bosa has been great, but you don't get extra points for a layup.

The saving grace is that they have been amazing in the later rounds. It's pretty remarkable that this FO has drafted Kittle, Trent Taylor (not great, but he's still in the league seven years later), DJ Reed (though he never did it for us), Dre Greenlaw, Colton McKivitz, Deommodore Lenoir, and Talanoa Hufanga in the 5th round. That is just incredible. You're talking a likely HOF TE, all pro safety (granted that felt a little premature), a pro bowl-level LB (Greenlaw will never make a pro bowl because they consider pass-rushing 3-4 LBs in the OLB category), two very solid CBs, and a passable starting RT. But Warner is the only third-round pick they've hit on. Even second round is only Deebo as a good value (Banks has been okay, but not even close to the best IOL taken in that round), though they've only made four picks in that round.

2012 may have been the worst draft in team history, though. The first rounder barely saw the field. The second-rounder's biggest impact was a fumble in the super bowl. No one else did a darn thing for this team, and Looney is the only guy who did anything at all in the league, and that was mostly as a depth OL.