B
San Francisco 49ers
The steal of the weekend belongs to the 49ers and Slaughter: B.
by Iowradar ·
2026 NFL Draft
· 9 picks
· 3 steals
· 5 reaches
When a board-topper like Jake Slaughter slides to pick No. 115, you do not overthink it, and the 49ers did not. They moved the roster forward and banked a B for it.
Reaching for Caldwell left real value on the table behind him. That interior defensive lineman hole did not close this weekend, and it was the biggest one on the wall.
Add it up and it is a good, unfussy class.
Pick-by-Pick
Omar Cooper Jr. slipping to the 45th pick is the kind of luck good rooms make for themselves. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
A quiet steal in pick 58: A.J. Haulcy for less than the market said. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
They robbed the room for Jake Slaughter here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Mason Reiger at the 127th overall pick is a steep price for a hunch, hard to square with any board. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
A tidy little value on Trey Zuhn III in slot 133, a step better than break-even. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
They liked Kaytron Allen enough to skip the value, taking him in pick No. 138. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Kaleb Elarms-Orr in Round 4, Pick 39 is a bet on their own eyes over everyone else's grade. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
They reached into another round for Jeff Caldwell, and the board is nowhere close to agreeing. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
Value said wait; Ephesians Prysock in slot 169 says they were not listening. A minor need, but a need all the same.