B
San Francisco 49ers
The 49ers let Hill Jr. fall and pounced. Final grade: B.
by 49er4eva ·
2026 NFL Draft
· 8 picks
· 5 steals
· 0 reaches
The value of the weekend has a name and a slot: Anthony Hill Jr., Round 2, Pick 26, roughly 20 picks past where he belonged. They moved the roster forward and banked a B for it.
They will regret leaving running back for another day if the season turns on it. The roster is better shaped than it was, with offensive lineman chief among the fixes.
They chose more darts over a bigger single swing.
All told, a solid class that does its job everywhere but running back.
Pick-by-Pick
In the Round 1 slot they get a seam-stretching tight end at a price that makes it sweeter. A clean fit for the roster.
Steal is underselling it; Anthony Hill Jr. at No. 58 is a heist with the alarm still ringing. The roster fit checks out.
They stopped a slide they were happy to see, landing Keylan Rutledge in the 127th pick. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
Kaleb Proctor in pick 133 is exactly on the number, no argument either way. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
No drama and no debate, Jakobe Thomas went about where he belonged in the 138th overall pick. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
They robbed the room for Hezekiah Masses here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. Depth more than a fix, but depth they can use.
Good things come to war rooms that wait, and Eric McAlister at slot 211 is the proof. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Fair-plus on Trey Zuhn III, a quiet win that adds up over a draft. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.