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Speaker 1:
[00:41] The pick is not in. The San Francisco 49ers trade out of round one, breaking down the trades the first round and who the 49ers should select at the top of round two. Oh, and today's Locked On 49ers.

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Speaker 1:
[01:08] Brian Peacock and Eric Crocker with you. The first round of the 2026 NFL Draft is in the books in the San Francisco 49ers did not make a selection to trades. We're going to break down each trade individually. Who went, who is still available for the San Francisco 49ers, what the other teams are doing around the NFL, including the NFC West Croc. And we got to start though with the trades because the 49ers will not make a draft pick on Thursday night. The first round is over and the 49ers are sitting now on the clock at pick number three after two trade downs, moving down originally from pick 27 to 30 Croc, getting a third round pick from the Miami Dolphins and giving up one of their many fourth round selections. So move up a full round. I like that move down Croc. What do you think about the trades, including the second one in which the 49ers moved down from 30 then to pick 33 with the New York Jets who had the first pick in round two. Only getting a fifth round pick. Looking at the trade chart Croc, that was a full round light from what you should be getting in terms of trades moving down from late round one, pick number 30 to pick number 33 and losing the fifth round option for the fifth year option for whatever player you were going to now draft at the top of round two. Presuming the 49ers even take a player at 33 and don't move down again.

Speaker 4:
[02:36] Yeah, well, clearly the 49ers didn't value whoever was available at either pick 27 or pick 30 enough to say, you know what, we want a fifth year on this guy. I think the fifth year option is something that you ideally want to keep in your back pocket just in case, right? Just in case whoever you draft turns out to be somebody is like, hey, he's legit. We always had that fifth year option in our back pocket, but you're not going to have that now, so you're likely going to have to really strike up a negotiation deal after year three, more than likely if this person pans out, which we all hope he does. Overall, I think when you look at just what the 49ers got back in return, I just, for my brain, I just looked at it as the 49ers moved back six spots and netted a third round pick and a fifth round pick, but gave up a fourth round pick. I don't know how I feel about that. I don't know how I feel about that. You got a late third, right? So you're picking, pick 90. So that's a real third. That's not a comp pick type third. So you got a late third. You got a fifth, but you lost one of your fourths. But you moved back six spots out of the first round. Not the biggest fan. The first one I did like, okay, pick 27. Okay, you give up some, okay, you move up. I think it was like almost 50 spots or so, something close to that. You moved up like 50 spots. Okay, I like that. Then the next try, I don't know. It was a little interesting.

Speaker 1:
[04:11] Yeah, they moved up from 138 to 90. So getting a legit third round pick, which I like a lot with that first trade up. They got pick 179, which is a comp pick fifth rounder. So it's a really late fifth round pick to move out of the first round. It's straight up bad value. It's less than chart value, period. So just from a straight up draft pick trade standpoint, the Jets got a deal moving up. And Croc, to be honest with you, and I think I like everything about what happened in the first round for the 49ers. I wanna talk about the NFC West, some of the crazy stuff that happened in this first round. But that last pick or that last trade, I don't like it because Cooper was the number one on the board. Cooper was the pick there. And I don't think it was worth a fifth round pick, let alone a late, we're talking comp fifth round pick, number 179 overall that they got from the Jets to move out of the first round and not select what I thought was the best player and what had really fallen perfectly on the board for the 49ers to potentially select Omar Cooper Jr. at pick number 30. Who was the player that the Jets ended up selecting there at pick number 30 themselves and traded up to get?

Speaker 4:
[05:17] Yeah, right. And that was, man, you know, I really liked him. But maybe the 49ers just did not like Cooper as much as I do. And some other 49er fans, I thought he was a legit fit. I thought he was someone with who they signed in free agency. It allows him to organically grow into a role, a la Deebo Samuel, his rookie year. Deebo a little bit more on his plate because the receivers there were Kendrick Bourne, Trent Taylor. There was another one, Marquise Goodwin, right? So you didn't have the legit guy right now. Different, but it felt like it was a great opportunity to say, all right, you don't have to come in and be the guy. You could start off as kind of a wide receiver three type guy and work your way in and we could utilize you and you could have a 700-yard season and a couple of these guys, or at least one of them depart. Cool. But you don't get the opportunity. Maybe they're telling us, which they showed us, no, we're looking for a different type of receiver. Maybe Omar Cooper Jr. is what they've traditionally been going after and they're saying, well, we don't care for the 5'11 and a half, 200-pound guy. We want a bigger body guy. Well, if that's how they feel or we're willing to take that risk, we still have a shot at getting Boston, if that's the direction that they truly want to go in. So if you're telling me that, yeah, we moved back, but we wanted this guy and we felt like he would be there or we were okay with another guy, then I say, all right, then you guys worked the board extremely well.

Speaker 1:
[06:53] And clearly the 49ers, I don't think it wasn't that they didn't like Omar Cooper. I think what they're telling us is they clearly didn't want one specific guy there and they thought there was a group of players that they valued the same and thought that was worth a very meager trade down because they were going to for sure be selecting from a group of players that they would have been group been selecting from at pick number 30 and they didn't value even the guy they end up selecting at 33. They didn't value losing that player potentially in a trade down, right? Because they were willing to move down. So that tells me they just had a few guys that were all the same, not that they didn't like Cooper necessarily. Maybe Boston would have been the pick, right? And then Cooper would still be on the board. They didn't care enough about Boston. They didn't care enough about Emmanuel McNeil-Warren. They didn't care enough about the other guards that potentially they could pick. And we'll talk about who probably the top candidates are for pick number 33 later for the 49ers and maybe rank them ourselves here, Croc, and who we like for the 49ers at pick 33. It just tells me that they didn't care which specific player they got because they have these guys graded so similarly that they knew they would get somebody from that group, which was at least four players long at pick 33.

Speaker 4:
[08:10] Yeah, we do have a comment in the chat from Juan Figueroa, and he says, all their first round graders were taking, well, all their first round grades that they had were taken in the first 16 or 17 picks.

Speaker 1:
[08:21] Exactly. Pick 16. And I said it, I was like, well, there goes the first round grades. I think the last one was Kenyon Sadik, and that was it. And it was like, okay, things can get nuts now. And I think the 49ers felt the exact same way. And here's the other thing. Let's go back to that first trade, because right before that, the Houston Texans jumped to the 49ers and jumped only the 49ers. The Texans for sure, jumped the 49ers to get their guy, whether or not that was the 49ers guy or not. They went from 28 to 26. The Texans jumped the Niners to trade with the Bills at 26 to get Georgia Tech Guard, Keelan Rutledge, which is a player we like a lot. I'm not upset that the 49ers didn't get a chance to draft Keelan Rutledge. Maybe they were. Maybe that was a player that they absolutely loved. But I have a feeling even if Keelan Rutledge was still on the board, the 49ers would have taken that trade down from 30. And potentially all of these guys we're talking about were all very similarly graded and the 49ers were just dead set. Like, look, these guys have the same grade for us. We will accept these trades. We want more picks and we will move down. I think that's more likely what the scenario was. But maybe if Rutledge was there, the 49ers would have stayed and picked the 27th. Maybe if Casey Concepcion was there who went a few picks before to the Browns at 24 and was in my mock draft. Maybe if it was who else just, yeah, Dylan Fenomen when it picked 25, right? Maybe Dylan Fenomen if he was the guy. So that was 24, 25, 26. It was Fenomen. It was, yeah, Concepcion, Fenomen, and Rutledge. I have in front of me. Why don't I look at it instead of trying to remember what just happened because it was such madness. Maybe one of those three guys, the 49ers would have stayed and selected one of those guys. So it's hard to tell which player, but clearly the Texans thought the 49ers were going to take Keelan Rutledge and jump the Niners to go get him themselves at pick 26. Whether they're right or wrong, maybe we'll never know.

Speaker 4:
[10:21] Yeah, and Rutledge was a guy that we like. You know, the interesting thing when you're doing mocks and guys are projected to go to a certain place, and we always say the draft is a lot crazier than whatever mock draft you come up with. Rutledge was a good football player, and I felt like the moment I watched myself, I was like a 49er, Office of Lineman, but okay, projected to go second round or third round or wherever. But he looks like a guy that playing some good football to me. And the NFL said, yeah, we don't know why all those mocks had him going late second round because we're going to take him in the first round right now. And he looks to be a good football player, not super flashy or anything like that, but look good, look like a 49er, Office of Lineman.

Speaker 1:
[11:09] Let's talk more about what happened in the first round, and then let's set the stage for round two with the San Francisco 49ers who are currently now on the clock for Friday and pick number 33, at least for now until they potentially trade down again. And let's rank who we like for the 49ers among who's left our day two draft board, talk about pick 58 and maybe some third round selections as well. Next today's episode of Locked On 49ers brought to you by Rugiet. The NFL Draft is here. Round one in the books, preparation meets opportunity and every decision matters in the NFL Draft. And it's all about being ready when your moment comes. That same mindset applies off the field too. That's where Rugiet comes in. Rugiet offers treatments designed to help you feel ready and confident when it matters most. Their top option, Rugiet Ready, is a mint that dissolves under your tongue with clinically proven ingredients. It works quickly, often in about 15 minutes and can last up to 36 hours. And they also offer Go Long, designed to help with both performance and control. It's all about showing up at your best whenever your moment is. So head to rugiet.com/locked On NFL and get 15% off your ED treatment. That's Rugiet, rugiet.com/locked On NFL for 15% off Rugiet Performance Medicine for Men. Today's episode is also brought to you by FanDuel. Not only is it the NFL Draft, but the NBA playoffs are here where every possession matters and every matchup is magnified and every game can swing a series. And right now FanDuel is giving new customers a great way to get in on the action. And here's what I like about it, you can bet just $5 and get 250 in bonus bets if your first bet wins. The app makes it easy to follow the action with player stats, trends and matchups all in one place. And during the playoffs, that extra insight really matters when you're looking for, you know, star players, role players, key moments. It just makes the entire playoff experience more engaging from start to finish. So, and of course those draft props, you can still find day two and day three draft props as well, but on the Niners to win the Super Bowl after this draft haul that they have seven picks remaining still. Head to fanduel.com to get started. FanDuel, play your game. All right, Croc, looking at how the board fell in the first round, I do want to highlight a few picks. And by the way, just looking back at what happened before the Niners picked the 27, everything was going so well for the 49ers. Then picked 20, the Eagles traded up for Mackay Lemon. And I think that started a run where I could see the 49ers have selecting any of these guys in a row. Pick 20, Mackay Lemon, 21, Max Ahonachor, 22, Aki Mesador, 23, Malachi Lawrence, 24, Casey Concepcion, 25, Dylan Thienemann, 26, Keelan Rutledge. Were any of those players, the one player the 49ers would not have traded out of? Was it Keelan Rutledge that the Texans moved up in front of the Niners to get? I don't know, but clearly the 49ers were willing to move down 27 to 30 and then again from 30 to 33. So obviously that's the big story for us with the Niners trading out of round one. But just looking at how the board fell in the first round, Jeremiah Love going three to the Cardinals really stands out. Then the Rams shocked the world by drafting Ty Simpson, Alabama quarterback at 13. And at the very end of the first round, another running back goes to the Seattle Seahawks. So inside the division, like this is ideal for the 49ers, two running backs in the first round and a quarterback that is, he might be really good, right? Like Ty Simpson could come back to haunt the 49ers for a decade. But I think I would bet all the money in my bank account that he's not as good of an NFL quarterback as the guy who's currently quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams. So even in that case, they probably got worse at quarterback long-term and you know that Matthew Stafford is going to be done at some time soon, right? But they didn't get anybody to help them this year against the 49ers. And I'm not scared to play against any first round running back. And I'm not scared to play against Ty Simpson, whatever he's the quarterback of the Rams. So from that standpoint, from the point where the 49ers traded down at 30, we'll take that last trade down out of it. Really, the night couldn't have gone better for the 49ers.

Speaker 4:
[15:21] Yeah, a lot of the way that the board was falling in, some of the guys are still on the board. And we're going to talk about kind of what our big boards currently look like for the 49ers. There's plenty of guys that if you told me they would have drafted them at 27, I'd be ecstatic about it, let alone that pick 30. So I think the 49ers are sitting pretty. I think if that was their overall strategy, I think they're sitting in a really good place and had a really good first round even though they didn't make a pick. Some of those picks that came off the board right away, I was a little surprised by Love going number three overall to Arizona. But not too far from what we were expecting. A lot of people were thinking he was going to be going in the first six picks or so. The Tennessee squad was a team that people were saying he would potentially go to. They drafted the receiver, Cardinal Tate out of Ohio State. And that was another one that was a little surprising. So those two picks, I think they were back to back as well between Tennessee Titans and Arizona Cardinals. So a little shocking there. But outside of that, I kind of liked a little bit of what some of the teams are doing. I'd say I felt bad for some of the players because they went to places where I feel like they've just kind of been graveyards for guys who I feel like have a lot of talent. The Jets being one of them, drafting. I mean, I like to pick a Siddiq. Obviously, I like to pick up Omar Cooper. Who is the Jets quarterback? Who is the Jets quarterback? I have no idea.

Speaker 1:
[16:53] Arch Manning at some point. What's his name? I can't even think of his name. He was with the Raiders last year.

Speaker 4:
[17:07] Who? Geno Smith.

Speaker 1:
[17:09] Geno Smith. Thank you. Yeah, Geno Smith.

Speaker 4:
[17:11] Got you. All right. Back in New York.

Speaker 1:
[17:14] Your guy. Yeah, remember we were joking about it. We're like, they brought Geno Smith back. Are you going to bring Eric Crocker back?

Speaker 4:
[17:24] I was in that parent coaches four by one relay last week. Man, I can still put some cover to a little bit.

Speaker 1:
[17:31] Dude, hey, coaches versus kids against my seven-year-old little league team yesterday, we crushed them, Croc. Destroyed them. No shot.

Speaker 4:
[17:42] But yeah, some of those things were pretty interesting. The Steelers, take him back to Hollachor. There were some people that felt like that's a guy that would be available well into the first round, let alone maybe early second round potentially, if a team like the 49ers didn't take him. The Pittsburgh Steelers were like, no, we like him right now and we'll develop him. So I like that and I like the...

Speaker 1:
[18:04] By the way, Croc, just real quick on that. The plan, and my guy Matt Williamson has been talking about him. We were talking about how we thought the Niners were gonna take Casey Concepcion and Max Ahonichor in one order or the other, and it almost came to fruition, not quite, but he was right about Max Ahonichor to the Pittsburgh Steelers. What's the plan? Left guard year one and eventually move out to left tackle. And we'll see what the plan ends up being. Maybe he ends up playing right tackle right away and they move another guy. But that was kind of the idea is like, let's draft a guy who can play left tackle early, potentially move out to left tackle. They got Felt Otano. He was playing right tackle last year. They might move him to left tackle. So we'll see what ends up happening. But that is, it's an interesting one. And he went high and he was too good. He was too talented to get out of the first round. That's why Max Ahonichor was my guy too. He's that talented. He deserved to go where he went in round one.

Speaker 4:
[18:56] And you were talking about the LA Rams, drafting the quarterback. And I kind of like it. It kind of makes it a low-pressure type situation. You got Matthew Stafford coming off of a great year, playing extremely well, still has a little bit of juice left for him. They were really trying to get rid of him in the off season, and he ended up coming back. So who knows how much longer he has. But making it a situation to where, okay, you get picked in that area, I think teams feel like, okay, we're kind of playing with House Money a little bit. We'll see what he is. It's not like you spent the top five pick on him, and then eventually have to move off of him. So pick 13, they'll see what he looks like, get to learn from Matthew Stafford, and maybe in a year or two, if you are ready, and this feels like more like a year from now, if you're ready, we'll give you a year, and we'll see what that looks like. If you wet the bed, we may be going high on the draft. I kind of like the idea of kind of a Brock Pertius type guy just drafting him seven rounds earlier.

Speaker 1:
[20:01] Ruben Bain falling all the way to 15 in the bucks. That was probably a very easy draft pick for the bucks to make who needed an edge and maybe got the best one in the draft to fall to him because he's got short arms. So we'll see what angry Ruben Bain looks like staying in the state of Florida there. That's a fascinating one. Caleb Banks was kind of a shocker. I think it's very reminiscent of when the 49ers took a defense tackle in the middle of the first round that had some injury issues, but was just so big and talented. It's the planet theory, right? Croc, there's not that many guys around the planet that are built like that. So you take a swing. So Caleb Banks pick 18 to the Vikings was somewhat of a shocker there in round one. And to be honest with you, I kind of like what the Cowboys did. They moved up one spot just to make sure nobody got up and got their guy in Caleb Downs and potentially have an all-pro type of safety. He's a player that a lot of people thought, along with Jordan or with Jeremiah Love was the best player in the NFL Draft. They got him at 11, then they were able to recoup some more picks and move down a few spots to 23. And got Malachi Lawrence, who was a player that a lot of 49ers fans wanted at pick number 27 in edge rushers. So two big time defensive players there for the Dallas Cowboys. But the 49ers are still in a really good spot. The second trade down, I don't love. But as I said on Twitter, someone asked me if John Lynch was cooking or not. I said he was cooking until that last trade down. But the food's in the oven. We got to find out what comes out of the oven still in round two crocs. So Niners are in the catbird seat. Pick 33. I'm sure they're getting calls overnight as well from teams that might want to move up and have that selection. So let's talk about who is the best available going into day two for the San Francisco 49ers and everybody else in the NFL Draft next. This episode is brought to you by Kalshi. The NFL Draft is here and every pick is a tradable moment on Kalshi. There was the big question, who is going to be pick number two, David Bailey or Arvel Reese? You could have come up big with the David Bailey selection there. They were trading at 50-50 before the draft started. Meaning you could have doubled your money there if one of them wins. Another one was, who is the first position the 49ers are going to select? Well, we haven't found that out yet. And I think that might change now, seeing who's on the board. Maybe, I guess kind of the same positions are still up for grabs for the Niners. Could be an offensive line, could be a wide receiver still, could be an edge rusher still, could be a safety on Kalshi or trading against peers in a live market, meaning there's no house. And as probabilities change, you can buy in and out of your position, trade the draft pick, the game and more on Kalshi for a limited time, download the Kalshi app and use code locked on and get $10 when you trade 10. K-A-L-S-H-I, that is Kalshi, K-A-L-S-H-I, trade on anything. Eric Crocker, of the players left, I think I know who you like amongst who is available. How would you grade these players out? How do you see things now as the 49ers sit at pick number three with who's available on the draft board?

Speaker 4:
[23:12] Well, I skipped over one of my guys. My safety one, my safety one, my favorite safety in the class, I almost forgot. Oh wait, he's still in this draft and he's still on the board. So I mean, I have to go with a guy that I feel like nobody's really talking about, but Keyante Scott out of Miami. I just feel, you just talk about traits, ability, versatility. He's the guy that comes in with the 49ers, gives them something they don't have at the safety position. He is a dynamic player. And if I would, I would have never known he actually played cornerback. For years, he's listed as a CB, but he played in the nickels. So you're just looking at him as a star player, but he played legitimately on the outside when he was at Auburn and was a good corner. Slid inside, showed that, looked dang near like a linebacker at times when he was able to come out off the edge, fill holes, but he can cover, he can run. He has legit traits. I mean, again, Jimmy Ward all over again, but hopefully giving you more takeaways. So you have him and a couple of other guys that I really like. Obviously, McNeil Warren, he's right there as well. 49ers draft, one of those safeties wouldn't be mad at all. I mean, just terrific ability and the type of safeties that I really love. And then another guy, Emanuel Pregnan out of Oregon. So those are my three favorite guys that are still on the board that I feel like come in and play right now. You get Pregnan at left guard, that is your left guard for the next 10 years. That's how I feel. I was very pleased with how well he played for Oregon. And not just Oregon, when he was at USC, he was good as well. So, you know, multiple spots there played extremely well. Come in, plug him in on the line and he can be a guy. Now, with the 49ers, how are they viewing it? Because I see PFF Frankies, they got the 49ers with the fifth best offensive line last year. I don't think any of us saw that or felt that. But that's what the numbers are saying, I guess. So, again, I like Pregnan. I like McNeil Warren. I like Keontae Scott. And those are three guys that I would be stoked for the 49ers of draft.

Speaker 1:
[25:26] Yeah, you really just, you woke up on draft morning, Croc, and just dropped the bomb, everybody, with the safety take on Twitter. Out of nowhere, talking about Keontae Scott as safety number one. And I wasn't expecting to see it. You kind of jarred some folks here late in the process before the draft start. You had Keontae Scott, you had Emmanuel McNeil Warren too on your safety list, then Phenomen 3, then Downs 4, and then our guy Traden Stukes who's still available as your fifth safety in this draft. So I think...

Speaker 4:
[25:59] And I love Downs. Downs is, if you're just telling me what the 49ers have been having their guys do, hey, you're going to be a cover for safety, drop into some deep third stuff, he is the best in that class at just from that to run in the alley and tackling. He is the best. The Cowboys got a damn good safety. But if you're going to ask him to do a little more, at the rate in which I saw some of these other guys have to play more pure man coverage in the slot, which again, I feel like it brings the 49ers just something different than they have, then that's when I start to value these other guys and their ability a little bit more. But Dallas is a damn good football player and his play recognition, the way he triggers on stuff, it's really, really high level stuff there.

Speaker 1:
[26:45] I think Emmanuel McNeil Warren is one of my top two guys. This is how I would list him out. I think Cassius Howell is one for me. I just think the juice that he brings as a pass rusher at this point in the draft, now that you're in the second round, is something that's going to be really hard to find, I think there's going to be a run on defensive lineman. I don't think Abacus is going to fall to pick 58. I think Accus you probably consider as well at pick 33 for the 49ers. I don't think Armies and Thomas is going to fall to pick 58. I just think that Cassius Howell has the most usable right now. Go get the quarterback juice. The only negative I see is that he's not the best against the run. But guess what? You got Mike L. Williams as well. That combo of Mike L. Williams and Cassius Howell, that could be dynamic for the 49ers, just instant pressure on third down. I love how competitive he is. I love the way he plays. Arms are a little short. I get that. I don't think it was a problem in college. I don't see that being a huge problem in the NFL with the burst he has and the way he can run the arc and win on the high side of the pass rush. So I think Cassius Howell is my number one guy pretty easily going into day two here. But I really like Emmanuel McNeil Warren as well at safety. I love trading Stukes as well at safety. I think they're all in play. I think Denzel Boston. If I was making a bet, I would bet that Denzel Boston would probably be the pick here at 33 right now. Certainly worthy in this area of the draft, even though I would probably trade Boston in a fifth for Omar Cooper or Casey Concepcion. That's just the way I see it. I like those players better. But I think this is the right area for Boston early second round. And he could certainly be the pick at 33. And you have to talk about the two guards, Croc and Emmanuel Pregnone and Chase Basantis as well. And when I look at this thing and I mentioned if I was betting, I would bet on Denzel Boston potentially, just because I think generally he thought of as the highest ranked guy of those players left him and Emmanuel McNeil Warren. But Howell kind of has slipped. He was up there and is kind of fallen into the early second round range. But this is a good range for how as well. You know, the guards are just their guards. But being of the guards crop. That was a big one we talked about.

Speaker 4:
[29:00] On that linebacker, can I touch on that real quick?

Speaker 1:
[29:02] Yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 4:
[29:03] I would just rather have bar him. I would rather have bar him. Yeah, because when I'm looking at how the 49ers are currently built, right? And you have Michael Williams and at some point he's going to come back. He's going to be healthy. And that's your, you know, that's your bookend, right? And then in that situation, if he's in, then you're likely in your base defense and you want three linebackers on the field. Well, in my head, I see Fred Warner, Dre Greenlaw and Barham, right? Now, you go into a more of a nickel package type situation and Michael Williams slides inside. Now Barham could come down and be that stand up rusher off of the edge. So you're almost kind of killing two birds with one stone. He has the speed, he has the twitchiness, he has the suddenness, he gives you that. But he also gives you a guy that, no, this can be a long term type of thing that the 49ers have if you draft him. So that's why I just like that more. And I don't expect him to go at pick 33. So you can still get whoever the hell you still get, you know, Keontae Scott or-

Speaker 1:
[30:11] Right, yeah.

Speaker 4:
[30:12] No one or Pregnan or Boston, you can still get those guys and still later, maybe even into the third round. I don't know where people have him going, but I probably wouldn't risk because I value what he would bring so much. I would, I mean, that would be my pick. I was at 58. I would have to take him at 38.

Speaker 1:
[30:29] Yeah. Yeah. And that's kind of the thing with this edge class because there's still so many guys and maybe you don't get Cassius Howell, maybe you don't get Gabe Ackes, maybe you don't get R. Mason Thomas. J. Sean Barham should be there at 58.

Speaker 4:
[30:41] And I like those guys. Those guys you named, I like them. I don't, and I like them for what the 49ers are looking for. But do I value that more than somebody that's going to be on the field every play? And that's where Barham, me, gives you more value. And he still gives you a lot of that ability and he can stop the run.

Speaker 1:
[30:58] I like J. Sean Barham a lot. I have no problem drafting him at 58, if that's the way the 49ers go. And that might be the reason the 49ers weren't worried about getting an edge, whether it's, you know, Malachi Lawrence or Mesador, if they were there at 27, or Cassius Howe. And that's a reason why their plan might be like, look, at 58, we're going to get a good edge rusher, whether it's Ackess or Howell or whoever falls there. There's Barham. There is Josephs. There is Kieron Crawford, who was in my mock draft. There is Romelo Hite, right? Derek Moore. Then I guess Dennis Sutton. There's just so many of these guys that there's going to be a player there. None of them can rush as good as Cassius Howell Croc. And that's my thing. If you're trying to get a thing, get the dude that's best at the thing. And that's Cassius Howell to me. And so that's why I would still probably take Cassius Howell here at 33. But I do like Jay Sean Barham. And I understand the process of saying, look, we can get another player here. We can get a no doubt safety or we can get a stud starting left guard right now today and still get Jay Sean Barham or one of these other players at edge. I just think Jay Sean Barham has too far to go as a pass rusher to be in the same tier as Akas and Cassius Howell and Armace and Thomas as well. Although I think there's a chance that Armace and Thomas, just because he's not very big, could slide down there a little bit. And his workout numbers were not what I thought they were going to be. I don't think it's out of the question that he could fall and pick 58. And who knows, we saw Ruben Bainfall, maybe Howell falls too, because he's got the shorter arms, he's got the 31-inch arms. Maybe he does slide towards pick number 58. But the reason you're drafting that player is because of the pass rush. And ideally, you would have time to develop someone like Jayshon Barham. But I don't know if he comes right in and is that pass rusher for you on third downs. And I think he's OK, but I don't think he's like a stud off ball backer either. I like some of the things that he can do with how powerful he is with his hands and he can stand up against the run. I love those things, but just as like a run and hit just regular linebacker. I don't know if I played Jayshon Barham in that role. So I don't know. There's less utility there, I think, right away with Jayshon Barham. And you need that pass rush, which is why I would I would kind of lean toward some of the other guys earlier.

Speaker 4:
[33:13] I think I'm a little higher on him with as a backer. Well, not just as a backer, but remember when we watched the TJ Parker and those guys, and we're like, OK, who do we like the most? I'm like, I don't know why Barham is last on this list, and he's only consistent, but that guy is the best. And that was me not viewing him as a linebacker at all. That was me just viewing him as an edge. He was twitchy. He was, I mean, just stopping runs in the backfield, chasing stuff down from the backside. He was doing other things. And then after the episode, I watched him play linebacker. I'm like, oh, he can play off-ball linebacker.

Speaker 1:
[33:49] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[33:50] Now you're telling me I'm getting two guys and one, something that the 49ers could really use. And then they're free to address the other things. And I just really like the thought of that.

Speaker 1:
[33:58] I don't know if you have an off-ball linebacker anymore because he showed up as pro day, like 250 pounds. He gained almost 10 pounds, I think, from the combine to pro day. I think tried to prove to everybody, he's like, hey, I am an edge. I can be 250 pounds. Somebody else did it.

Speaker 4:
[34:15] He'll be back down to 243.

Speaker 1:
[34:17] Depends on how you want to use it. But that type of player that Raheem Morris might want too. I'm thinking like, which player is Raheem Morris throwing that pool party about, right? Manuel McNeil Warren, I could see him loving that. I could see him loving trading stokes. I could see him loving really any of the guys we're talking about here on the defensive side of the football. But here's the big thing for me, Crocker, is, and we glossed over it at the beginning, the 49ers traded out of round one. What do you really lose? Because that's not much to get a late fifth. We're talking about a comp fifth, pick 179 to drop out of the first round. You lose the fifth year option. What positions does it not matter having the fifth year option? The first one that comes to mind is, well, guard.

Speaker 4:
[35:06] No, guard is a very expensive position right now.

Speaker 1:
[35:09] It's expensive, but it's not tackle expensive. And offensive linemen are put into one bucket. It's not a fifth year option for tackles and it's a different number for guards, different number for centers. They're all put in one. So the guard number is a tackle number as far as fifth year options go. And so that's the reason why Tyler Linderbaum wasn't given his fifth year option by the Ravens. And ended up hitting free agency. But safety too. Safety is not a big time position. It's not one that you're that worried about the fifth year option as well. So maybe that's why the 49ers are telling us, look, we're not going to draft a wide receiver or an edge. So we're not worried about the fifth year option because we're going to go to a position that the fifth year option doesn't matter as much like guard or maybe safety. So maybe that's what they're telling us. Not super worried about moving out of the first round in that fifth year option, which would point to Emmanuel McMillan Warren, Trayden Stukes, Emmanuel Pregnone or Chase Basantis. I still would go Cassius Howell, Denzel Boston, certainly in the mix. Those six names I think are probably the most likely, but there's certainly a bigger group of players of the 49ers could for sure shock us with.

Speaker 4:
[36:23] The 49ers, they probably won't do this, but if you told me just with how things have been working out, if they drafted Pregnant now at 33, at 38 they drafted Boron, and at 90 they drafted Bud Clark, Eric Crocker would be very excited.

Speaker 1:
[36:40] Would approve of that. So Pregnant versus Basantis, you like Pregnant?

Speaker 4:
[36:47] Yes.

Speaker 1:
[36:47] I like Pregnant better because he destroys people. I could see why they would like Basantis more. The book on Basantis is that he's definitely more athletic and get out on the move, fit the wide zone a little bit better. He's not as much of a people mover as Pregnant is, but he's also like that first in, last out guy. He's got a lot of fans in a lot of draft rooms. I know that. So I wouldn't be shocked if Basantis would go ahead of Emmanuel Pregnant. Then Warren versus Stukes. Man, I like Stukes a lot. Emmanuel McNeil Warrens might be more naturally gifted, as crazy as that is to say, because Stukes ran a 4-3-3. I think they're tight. I think those are all actually pretty close, actually. Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[37:32] I mean, Neil Warren, just the length and just the instincts in which how he played, and again, really big. What did they ask him to do? They asked him to do a lot. Yeah. They asked him to do a lot. The job that he had, it wasn't easy. That's why I challenge people when they look at PFF, and they're looking at these coverage grades and stuff. What is this guy being asked to do? The AJ Halsey guy, when you watch him at LHC, he was like, what are they asking him to do? A lot of, okay, drop back, okay, cover four, do some things. Okay, I'm playing the boundary, then I kind of rolled over a little bit. McNeil Warren is in the action. He's in all the action, and I love that about his game.

Speaker 1:
[38:15] Let's hit a couple more questions here before we go. Taking a look at round two. Will the 49ers select at 33? What do you think, Croc? There's plenty of time, and I'm sure their phone is ringing. You can go down five more spots and feel pretty good about it, right? Would you be upset if, say, we put those six names out there, and the 49ers traded down six spots and got their last choice of those six names we've been talking about? At this point, no, right? Does anybody stand out that much of that group?

Speaker 4:
[38:50] Is it netting me somehow another third round pick, even if you, okay, you move back six spots, but you move up from the fourth to the third round?

Speaker 1:
[38:59] I'd rather move back six spots than two spots to get more, right?

Speaker 4:
[39:03] I saw someone in the chat mentioned Chris Bell.

Speaker 1:
[39:06] Yes.

Speaker 4:
[39:06] That's a guy who, once I saw it, I'm like, it's AJ Brown. I watched a lot of AJ Brown film. I was very high on DK, Debo, and AJ Brown. I was very high on those three guys, very high. They were one, two, and three for me. Really one, two, A, two, B. I really loved them. Once I saw it with Chris Bell, I'm like, oh, there it is. And there's not a lot of guys that are, you know, six, two and a half, 220 pounds, and have the acceleration and burst after the catch, but have the ability to, you know, get to spots. And I think that's a really good thing. And I think that's a really good thing. And I think that's a really good thing. And I think that's a really good thing. And I think that's a really good thing. And I think that's a really good thing. And I think that's a really good thing. But knowing that you have potentially a legit football player in your back pocket that just got hurt, and you didn't have to give up a lot of capital for him, I would really like that.

Speaker 1:
[40:18] Chris Bell has to be there at 58 for me. He's coming off the ACL. I know that his agent put out the stuff through Ian Rappaport. He's running 18 miles an hour, and he's, quote unquote, ahead of schedule with his treatment, but he's not going to get a normal training camp for a rookie. As much as I'd like.

Speaker 4:
[40:35] Do you not think he gets past 58?

Speaker 1:
[40:37] I think he gets to 58. I think he probably does. I don't think he gets to 90.

Speaker 4:
[40:43] OK, you don't think he gets to 90.

Speaker 1:
[40:44] I think he gets 58, and if he doesn't, then someone else gets him. I'm not taking him until 58, coming off the ACL. And the Niners might not take him all. We didn't talk about Jermod McCoy. He's out of the first round, too, because of a knee. And there's no reason. I'm sure a lot of people are wondering, like, why aren't we talking about Jermod McCoy? He's like going to be the he's going to be on the ticker, best available, right, on the on the draft coverage. The ACL thing, you can't mess with that if you're the 49ers.

Speaker 4:
[41:14] The ACL thing is very interesting because. Not just people recover different because we've seen some guys come back. Was it Adrian Peterson came back and was NFL MVP. That's probably like the last non-quarterback MVP in the league. So we've seen guys recover and be very good. And we've seen it a lot of times. The issue is you never know how that person is rehabbing. And my buddy, Eric Rogers, he signed with the 49ers from the CFL. This was years ago. I think the chip was in the CFL a year. And when he came back from the AC, he just never was quite the same. I don't know how he was rehabbing. I don't know what that looked like. But that's the thing you kind of have to worry about a little bit. When guys have these injuries, how are they going 1,000% with the rehab? Or are they kind of like, we will see. That's a big question mark.

Speaker 1:
[42:12] Kevon Thibodeau, potentially on the trade block, croc now that the Giants have added yet another kind of edge type player in Arvel Reese. Does that move the needle for you? AJ Brown still out there. He was supposedly going to be a New England Patriot. That hasn't happened yet. Here's the other story that popped up from today. Jaguars are trying to move up in round two. I think they're at pick 56, but they're dangling the wide receiver. Brian Thomas Jr., BTJ, Brian Thomas Jr. as potentially part of a trade up. Do you think about maybe that as your wide receiver? Would you have a Brian Thomas Jr. in a trade down to 56, then Denzel Boston at 33?

Speaker 4:
[42:55] So receivers, I feel like, you know, especially over the first few years, you can get production out of them without having to trade for a guy that you're about to have to pay. So I would not, unless I just had zero faith in Ricky Pearsall, and I don't know where the 49ers are at on him, or their ability to find a guy that can be productive, especially when we talk about the 49ers usage of players, I just don't see the value in them going after a Brian Thomas.

Speaker 1:
[43:25] RDC wants to know why you hate Brian Thomas.

Speaker 4:
[43:30] I think he's talking about you. I like Brian Thomas.

Speaker 1:
[43:36] There's a number of angles that this way could go. Croc, my guy is Hal at 33. Although I would not be opposed to any of those other guys. I think they all really start to make sense here at pick number 33. Who's your guy? One pick. I know you like Keontae Scott. Keontae Scott might be in play at 58 still though. Stukes might be as well. We think we know where guys are going to go. Dropping from maybe pick 45 in mock drafts to 58 is nothing. Something like that is going to happen. There's going to be a player there that we might be surprised is still there for the 49ers, the pick number 58 and now they got that third round pick. Here's the thing, I think you'll wait on wide receiver. Pick 90, that might be Skyler Bell, that might be Ted Hurst. Wide receivers, pretty deep.

Speaker 4:
[44:35] I'd go pregnant, I'd pick 33. Starting day one, starting left guard.

Speaker 1:
[44:39] Day one, starting guard.

Speaker 4:
[44:40] You got the position locked up for 10 years.

Speaker 1:
[44:42] I have a feeling that's the direction the 49ers are going to go. Basantis, probably my guess for the 49ers at 33. I would pick how. The fact that they so easily moved out and aren't worried about the fifth year option for a late fifth round pick, taking under value on that trade down tells me they don't care at all about the about the fifth year option, which tells me guard or safety. And it comes down to Emmanuel McNeil, Warren or Basantis. I had to guess what their board looks like. Does the new defensive coordinator have a say? Does he want to throw a pool party? Emmanuel McNeil, Warren, Braden Stukes. I think Basantis is my guess. I would take cash as hell. Pass rush, go kill the quarterback. That's what's gonna make you a better football team. You can find a guard in round four or round three. Now they got that third round pick. That's it, Barron.

Speaker 4:
[45:36] Give me a second round and give me a bar. And in the third round, I'll be happy.

Speaker 1:
[45:44] We will find out and who knows, maybe the 49ers won't pick it all at pick number 33. And whatever happens on day two of the NFL Draft, we will have it covered for you right here on Locked On 49ers. So thanks for tuning in. Check out the Everydayer Club. Make sure you're all subscribed up on YouTube and everywhere you get your podcast. Crocker and I back tomorrow right here, Locked On 49ers.