49ers front office has one clear weakness in NFL draft
The 49ers have proven to be one of the more competitive teams in the league despite this draft issue.
Despite the on-field success of the San Francisco 49ers in the John Lynch-Kyle Shanahan era, the team is not that great in the draft. The 49ers have reached on players in Rounds 1 to 3 over the past six drafts (2020-2025) more than any other team, per data from @sfdata9ers . A "reach" is defined as how early or late a player was drafted in relation to the consensus big board from nflmockdraftdatabase.
com . All of San Francisco's selections since 2020 were taken earlier than their consensus ranking, and some as far as 100s of picks too early. The only team even close to the 49ers was the New England Patriots.
Here are the 49ers biggest reaches, too: No team reaches more than the #49ers . Here are their 20 biggest reaches in the Lynch–Shanahan era. https://t.
co/r8fSe5blfS pic. twitter. com/BEouBRseKS — SFdata9ers🏈📊 (@sfdata9ers) April 14, 2026 Now, reaches are inherently bad .