A long rant about our draft history.. yet again..
We drafted real bad and traded also for the worst .. Antonio, sanu and agholor.
Just for the trades the GM should be fired . The coach Bill helped the GM stay afloat. 49ers are gonna get a 1st and additional pocket change for garopollo while we gave garopollo for second round, did not trade thuney when market was high, not sure why we traded Gilmore for peanuts.
All these factors and now we have zero playmakers from the prior drafts excluding 2021.
The drafts from 2016 to 2020 are shocking. The worst of the lot was 2019 and Harris and Bailey salvaging it to a certain extent (Bailey who is also regressing.)
2016 -2020 - we have drafted 42 players across 7 rounds.
Out of these the only notable selections are 5 good ones and 8 ordinary ones and 29 miserable flops. Notice that we have decent success at offensive linemen and running backs as both are complimentary. All other areas are abject failures.
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Tier A
Joe Thuney, Ted Karras, Damien Harris, Kyle dugger, Onwenu
Tier B
Malcolm Mitchell, Sony Michel,Jake Bailey, Bentley
Tier C
Wise,Herron,Wynn, brissett.
If we take top 2 rounds where it's relatively easier to draft talent we had 8 selections where there is only 1 decent strike ( dugger) , 2 contributors ( Wynn, Michel) while 5 zero contributions.
Wasted picks on asiasi and Keene could have been used to at least build depth defensive pieces . 0 WR and TE success . We just got lucky with Gronk,Edelman,moss,Welker, branch who helped us stay afloat. Now no receiver demands double coverage .
We might just be an average 7-10 win team unless we hit a home run with a defensive stud or Offensive stud. We got lucky with 2021, else we would be even more screwed.
Our coaching can help us win against undisciplined teams , but teams with talent and discipline will romp over us and This has been happening consistently for the last 3 years . Whoever is doing our free agency acquisition , they should also be under the scanner. Just imagine if Judon got injured in first half, the entire team make up would be different and we might have ended as a 5-12 team. One guy influenced an entire teams defense. He gets injured in latter half , we get exposed as frauds on defense.
2022 also we need to have a solid draft and hope to hit some home runs with 3rd and 4th round picks outside of RBs and linemen.