Thirty-one other rooms let Ryan Fitzgerald slide, and the 49ers were the ones holding the card at the Round 7 slot. Highway robbery.

If Brown pans out, nobody remembers the price. If not, this is the pick they hear about. They lost the exchange badly enough to drag the whole class down. It is not that Muhammad is a bad player; it is that the 49ers had louder needs to answer first.

That wide receiver hole did not close this weekend, and it was the biggest one on the wall.

The verdict is a shrug for now, with the swing picks left to write the real ending.