You can draft well and still miss the point. The 49ers did plenty of tidy work and somehow never got around to running back, which was the need that mattered most. A sturdy weekend that grades out a B-.

Landing Singleton Jr. that late papers over a lot of smaller sins. A small leak at the table, if not a fatal one.

Stockpiling next year's capital is patient, if unglamorous, asset work. They left with offensive lineman solved and the rest of the wish list mostly ticked off.

In short, they left a little better than they arrived, which is the whole idea.