C+
San Francisco 49ers
Flashes of a plan, unevenly run, for the 49ers: C+.
by hammertime140 ·
2026 NFL Draft
· 6 picks
· 2 steals
· 3 reaches
You can fall in love with a player. You are not supposed to marry him in the wrong round. The 49ers did exactly that with Caleb Douglas in slot 133.
They banked enough surplus on Parker II to cover a lot of smaller sins. Leaving running back unaddressed is the roster risk they will have to answer for in the fall.
If Joshua Josephs and a couple of the gambles land, hindsight will be kinder than this grade.
Pick-by-Pick
In slot 27 they get a quarterback's worst nightmare, though the board says they badly overpaid.
Dani Dennis-Sutton at pick No. 58 is the kind of overdraft that needs everything to break right. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
Brian Parker II at Round 4, Pick 27 is the sort of value that quietly wins a weekend. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
A wild overpay on Caleb Douglas in the Round 4 slot, the sort that defines a class for the wrong reasons. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
They stopped a slide they were happy to see, landing Will Lee III in the 138th pick. Depth more than a fix, but depth they can use.
Jakobe Thomas in No. 139 is exactly on the number, no argument either way. A quiet depth add at a thin-ish spot.