49ers' 2007 draft class

[Brady_to_Moss]

Patrick Willis Joe Staley Ray McDonald Dashon Goldson Tarell Brown..all 5 are SB starters

Dam good draft

San Francisco 49ers had incredible 2007 draft class - NFL.com

 

[ctpatsfan77]

Patrick Willis Joe Staley Ray McDonald Dashon Goldson Tarell Brown..all 5 are SB starters

Dam good draft

San Francisco 49ers had incredible 2007 draft class - NFL.com

Devin McCourty
Aaron Hernandez
Brandon Spikes
Zoltan Mesko

and, oh yeah

GRONK

 

[Brady_to_Moss]

i know our draft..was just saying the 49ers had a great one as well

 

[Armchair Quarterback]

Patrick Willis Joe Staley Ray McDonald Dashon Goldson Tarell Brown..all 5 are SB starters

Dam good draft

San Francisco 49ers had incredible 2007 draft class - NFL.com

Not possible, that draft sucked, that's why the Pats got nothing out of it....Right?

 

[Sciz]

Not possible, that draft sucked, that's why the Pats got nothing out of it....Right?

4/5 of those players were off the board when the Pats had their second pick

 

[borg]

Not possible, that draft sucked, that's why the Pats got nothing out of it....Right?

Pats were fine tuning their DB specs then......midget, quick twitch, dime backs that tackle when the ball was in the air. A couple more years and I think we will see some fruit

 

[DarrylS]

Our 2007 draft was so, so.. unless you include Moss and Welker..

But subsequent drafts have been getting better, culminating with "kick azz" the past few years...

 

[randomk1]

Our 2007 draft was so, so.. unless you include Moss and Welker..

But subsequent drafts have been getting better, culminating with "kick azz" the past few years...

That area really is a hole on this current team. Those guys should be in their prime right now and if we hit on just a few of them we might have something to show for it.

The 2010 - 2012 drafts have been as good as any in the NFL so far imo.

 

[Rob0729]

Our 2007 draft was so, so.. unless you include Moss and Welker..

But subsequent drafts have been getting better, culminating with "kick azz" the past few years...

You gotta credit Nick Caserio. He really seems to have emerged as a very good college evaluator. His free agency moves have been up and down (he hit gold with Nickovich, Waters, Connolly, and a few others while striking out on Ellis, Ocho, and Haynesworth). Since he really got his college scouting system in place (which usually takes a year or two for most personnel guys), his drafts have been spectacular.

Some people are saying bring back Pioli, but Caserio's recent drafts are as good as any of Pioli's best drafts with the Pats.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

That area really is a hole on this current team. Those guys should be in their prime right now and if we hit on just a few of them we might have something to show for it.

Remember, though, how stacked that team was before the draft.

 

[Rob0729]

Patrick Willis Joe Staley Ray McDonald Dashon Goldson Tarell Brown..all 5 are SB starters

Dam good draft

San Francisco 49ers had incredible 2007 draft class - NFL.com

That is a very strong draft. Having two first round picks helped a lot. Also, having the 11th pick helped, but in hindsight it is amazing that Willis fell so far especially with a head scratcher like Ted Ginn taken before him. Granted the top of the 2007 draft had some great players (Megatron, LaRon Landry, Joe Thomas, Adrian Peterson).

 

[Rob0729]

4/5 of those players were off the board when the Pats had their second pick

That's the one thing people fail to acknowledge about the Pats' 2007 draft when they trash it. Yes, they had 9 picks, but only in the first three rounds and six picks in the sixth or seventh. And their fourth round pick was almost a fifth rounder since it was the 28th pick in the 4th round. So they had one pick in the first 170 picks of the 2007 draft.

It wasn't a good draft by any stretch of the imagination. But considering they only had one pick in the first three rounds, the ceiling of what that draft could have been was fairly low to begin with.

 

[The Brandon Five]

Devin McCourty
Aaron Hernandez
Brandon Spikes
Zoltan Mesko

and, oh yeah

GRONK

Getting back to apples to apples....

Revisiting the 2007 NFL Draft | NEPatriotsDraft.com - 2013 NFL Draft

1st Round (24) – Brandon Meriweather

1st Round (28) – Traded

In exchange for the 28th pick, the Patriots received pick #110 (Traded for Randy Moss) and San Francisco’s 1st Rounder the next year – which resulted in the selections of the spectacular Jerod Mayo and the disappointing Shawn Crable after a trade down.

2nd Round (60) – Traded

The Patriots used this pick to trade for Wes Welker, formerly of the Miami Dolphins. That worked out okay.

3rd Round (91) – Traded

The Patriots received a 7th round pick (Oscar Lua) and a 2008 3rd round pick, which was later turned into Ron Brace and Matthew Slater through a series of trades.


4th Round (127) – Kareem Brown

5th-7th Round

Seven players were drafted by the Patriots in these rounds, with only one ever seeing any legitimate playing time (Richardson). The paucity of talent found in the other players in these rounds speaks to overall talent level of the 2007 NFL Draft. It is very possible that the Patriots were unable to unload these picks, as no team wanted to trade up.

Hindsight: Out of the 120+ selections in the 5th-7th rounds, Legedu Naanee, Brent Celek, Pierre Thomas (UDFA) and David Clowney are the only players that would have had a chance to make the 2008 Patriots roster.

The Patriots landed four Pro Bowl players directly or indirectly from this draft (Mayo, Moss, Welker, Meriweather), so it is very tough to give them bad marks. The poor results of the late rounds is definitely off-set by the utter void of good players available. The 2007 Draft set the Patriots up to compete for the Super Bowl for the next five years.

 

[The Brandon Five]

That's the one thing people fail to acknowledge about the Pats' 2007 draft when they trash it. Yes, they had 9 picks, but only in the first three rounds and six picks in the sixth or seventh. And their fourth round pick was almost a fifth rounder since it was the 28th pick in the 4th round. So they had one pick in the first 170 picks of the 2007 draft.

It was a good draft by any stretch of the imagination. But considering they only had one pick in the first three rounds, the ceiling of what that draft could have been was fairly low to begin with.

It was a top-heavy draft class. Given the lack of depth and our lack of high picks it was a real feat to come out of that draft with two Hall of Famers on the team (Moss and Welker) and a Pro Bowler with one of the picks they received for the next draft (Mayo).

Would AP have been nice? Sure, if it were possible.

 

[jmt57]

San Francisco, just like any NFL team - even the ones that have been among the best at drafting - has had their fair share of misses as well.

San Francisco 49ers All-Time Draft History - Pro-Football-Reference.com

2012: Four draftees have yet to play an NFL game

2011: Four draftees no longer with the team

2010: 2nd round pick S Taylor Mays lasted one year in SF

2009: One starter and one backup are all that remains on the team

2008: 1st round pick DE Kentwan Balmer lasted two seasons; 3rd round pick S Reggie Smith is out of the NFL

2007: Two 4th round picks that had virtually no NFL career

2006: 3rd round pick WR Brandon Williams had zero receptions in the NFL



Per the standards of this forum, if the Pats had made those same picks then we would constantly have threads started, complaining about how awful the team is at drafting

So is this a slam on the drafting ability of the 49ers? Absolutely not; you look at the last several years and I would say that they have done extremely well in that regard. It's just something to consider next time somebody wants to complain about the draft history of the Pats.

 

[BradyFTW!]

You gotta credit Nick Caserio. He really seems to have emerged as a very good college evaluator. His free agency moves have been up and down (he hit gold with Nickovich, Waters, Connolly, and a few others while striking out on Ellis, Ocho, and Haynesworth). Since he really got his college scouting system in place (which usually takes a year or two for most personnel guys), his drafts have been spectacular.

Some people are saying bring back Pioli, but Caserio's recent drafts are as good as any of Pioli's best drafts with the Pats.

People want Pioli back? I haven't seen that, but if so, then that's crazy. Pats have done better without him than they did the last few years with him.

 

[BradyFTW!]

It was a top-heavy draft class. Given the lack of depth and our lack of high picks it was a real feat to come out of that draft with two Hall of Famers on the team (Moss and Welker) and a Pro Bowler with one of the picks they received for the next draft (Mayo).

Would AP have been nice? Sure, if it were possible.

Mayo was drafted the following year - Meriweather was the first round pick in 2007.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

jmt your fact based posts are killing discussion on this forum. Ian will be pissed!

 

[Kontradiction]

I remember I was on a road trip that year and was listening to the draft on the radio. I kept saying "wow, good pick" whenever the Niners came up. Willis was my binky that year and I was pretty high on Staley and Goldson.

 

[The Brandon Five]

Mayo was drafted the following year - Meriweather was the first round pick in 2007.

Thanks for the correction...umm, what?

It was a top-heavy draft class. Given the lack of depth and our lack of high picks it was a real feat to come out of that draft with two Hall of Famers on the team (Moss and Welker) and a Pro Bowler with one of the picks they received for the next draft (Mayo).

Would AP have been nice? Sure, if it were possible.