NFL Offseason 2026

I will usually defend lynch as the track record has been fantastic, but on the surface this draft was a complete flop. I hope I’m wrong

Not addressing o-line for the second straight year and overkilling on edge rushers for the second straight year and YOLO 4th round RB for the hundredth straight year is psychotic

I don't see why Wesley Williams made the name game. I have a cousin with that name.

Seems pretty generic to me.

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Just because they hit on an unprobable QB and traded for a generational RB, doesn't mean they are good at drafting.

If you look back at the draft history, it's abysmal. Lynch and Shanny continue to act like they are the smartest guys in the room while continuing to mostly draft guys that have no impact on their team success. Imagine if they were good at drafting. They could have even turned all of those playoff wins into a SB win!

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Sure, they've hit on a few guys. But the bad picks far outweigh the few hits.

The post below sums it up well.

Idk that’s an unfair characterization, and I say that as someone who is very clearly not gonna slurp the Niners

The Niners hit rate on first rounders has been ****ing disastrous

Hit rate on second rounders has been meh to slightly above meh

Hit rate on 3rd and beyond is undeniable. Maybe it’s blind luck but I have a hard time believing any other team has had that level of success

I will say the Niners clearly believe themselves the smartest people in the room, and all you need to do is revisit mac jones to understand that there’s probably some truth to that and that they’re too ****ing stupid to understand how capital works

Example of their complete idiocy:

Let’s accept as fact that the Niners clearly traded 3 1s needlessly to secure Mac, which on the surface is beyond ****ing insane regardless of what the end result is. And only after facing such a massive level of backlash did they pivot at the last second and take Lance, which, well, we know how that played out

Complete waste of capital to no rhyme or reason for a player they woulda landed where they originally drafted or slightly above without needing to give up 3 1s

Example of some merit of them being the smartest guys in the room:

Mac was really really really good as a niner. Regardless of the pats and jags era he was objectively successful under Kyle

I guess hitting on at least one 3rd rounder plus per draft is a big win, given the quality of those players. But even saying that, I don’t recognize basically any of the names they drafted in that range the last 3-4 years. Though, I won’t claim to know the depth of every team’s roster.

And they deserve credit for Kittle, Greenlaw. Warner, Purdy, to name a few.

They’d be better off selling most picks rounds 1-3 and then getting their guys who remain rounds 4-7. Most of the bad picks coming from the first few rounds is such a brutal waste of assets.

One thing they should never draft again is a RB. Sermon, TDP, Guerendo, Mitchell (who did have a small run of production), Black this year who wasn’t even invited to the combine lol. But at least he won a championship!

One guy I am rooting for is Ephesians Prysock.

has there been a study or any analysis on how accurate draftnik grading ends up being?

i'd think over time the teams that get A's probably do better than the teams that get C-'s, i'll give the wisdom of crowds that much credit but was just curious if anyone had thoughts on this

One thing I heard recently on a pod is how all the mock draft industry has meant less risk taking as GMs and Teams are more scared of criticism if they deviate too much from mock draft consensus

Which is pretty lol to be honest

Being afraid of criticism means they aren’t confident in their process and data. But deviating also should be done strategically. It’s still a market with shared opinions at the end of the day.

Any schmuck that plays fantasy football knows that if a guy has a good chance of being available in round 9, you probably shouldn’t take him in round 3. Maybe you start considering the reach at round 6-7 instead, if you really like the player.

There are levels to it. And FOMO plays a role too. The last thing a front office/coaching staff wants to watch is a player crush for another team because they tried to push him a round or 2.

It’s like that clip when McVay and Snead heard the Cole Strange pick and laughed saying they wasted their time watching him because they thought the guy might be available at 104.

Belichick in his later years with the Pats was another galaxy brain drafter that had a terrible track record.

There would have been absolutely nothing wrong with the Niners taking mac at 15 (or wherever the original pick was, I don’t remember)

There would have been absolutely nothing wrong with the Niners trading a pick or 2 to move up to the 7-10 range to secure mac

4 1s for a guy who went 22 is insane on any level. Knowing how this all played out I doubt it ultimately matters but having such terrible regard for capital is where the Niners fail

That level of disregard to the value of a 1st in the modern cap era is unforgivable

Fanduel and DraftKings print millions due to FOMO and people blindly tailing touts' longshots

If Brock wasn’t hung like John Holmes, Lynch and probably Kyle would’ve been fired two years ago. Lance may be WOAT 1st round move. Black (6th round grade, no positional need) over Dunker (2nd round grade & severe need) at 90 may be top ten WOAT post-2nd pick.

What the Niners run has really shown is the value of HOF-level talent. When 5/22 of your starters are at/near that level, it covers up a lot. Kyle is legit top 3 QB whisperer/playcaller.

SRM,

Not sure if this will make you feel any better but overall the belief was this draft class was on the harder side to evaluate and the "consensus" boards that I keep reading about were way off. Case and point the freak out of the Jaguars pick in the 2nd. I read somewhere that he was a UDFA. NFL teams had boards that were drastically different from the media.

The media is struggling to get more information on draftboards. I attribute this to the Giants Hard Knocks making things even tighter. As the following weeks go by we likely will see more information from teams and where they had players ranked.

For the record, Kiper's "big board" was atrocious and whatever interns were working for him this cycle did him a massive disservice.

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Needle, any available RB at 90 over best available OL is a disaster fir the niners. As for Height at 70 it’s a defensible reach but nobody’s mentioning who the other edge on that team was that probably inflated his numbers. Plus he’s a gypsy, was at Auburn USC & Ga Tech before Tx Tech!

Draft Notes and numbers:

Shut up about the SEC finally
This is the 20th straight year the SEC has lead in total draft picks

SEC - 87 (Every school had at least 1 player taken)
B1G - 68 (Won last 3 national titles)
BIG 12 - 38
ACC - 38
ND - 6

Given the above schools, only 20 other players were taken (20 out of 257 picks!)

School Leaders

Ohio St. - 11
Bama - 10 (18 consecutive years with a first round selection)
Texas A&M - 10
Texas Tech - 9
Miami - 9
Clemson - 9
Indiana - 8 (School record - SHOCKER!)
Penn St. - 8
Georgia - 8

Year a school has had at least 1 draft pick

Tied
USC - 88 (straight years)
Michigan - 88 (both schools since1939)

Florida - (1952)
Miami - (1975)
ND - (1978)
Iowa - (1978) ???
Ending their streak since (1978) Wisconsin

Other notables with no selections

NC - (Go Bill 1st time in 10 years without a selection)
OK St. (New coach should change next year, took half of UNT's roster with him)
W. Va
Virginia
Syracuse
VA Tech
Purdue (I thought they were better this year)
UCLA (How you can't recruit to this school is beyond me. Thought Aikman was going to fix that)
Colorado (How much longer does Dion stick around?)

To be fair the SEC also has like 82 schools

Ummm the B1G has 18 schools, the SEC has 16

he's HU now for the title

wild

had the best of it but a 7 on the flop

this was the last hand

Opt that one will sting for a while

would not cry over $400k

No. And to all intents he would have run incredibly well to get there, (as everyone has to) but busting in a high leverage spot deep in an mtt stays with you.