USA TOday Sports Weekly
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April 25/May 1st edition
NFL Draft Preview
Where will they land?
Here is who we got on the 49ers:
1 11 Willis, Patrick ILB 6-1 240 Mississippi
1 28 Staley, Joe OT 6-5 302 Central Michigan
3 76 Hill, Jason WR 6-0 210 Washington State
3 97 McDonald, Ray DT 6-3 281 Florida
4 104 Moore, Jay DE 6-5 276 Nebraska
4 126 Goldson, Dashon FS 6-2 202 Washington
4 135 Cohen, Joe DT 6-2 313 Florida
5 147 Brown, Tarell CB 5-11 192 Texas
6 186 Clayton, Thomas RB 5-10 218 Kansas State
Here is the breakdown from the Sports Weekly:
Patrick Willis, ILB, number 1 rated
Joe Staley, OT, number 3 rated
Jason Hill, WR, number 10 rated. Least we got a top 10 WR so I'm OK with that. Number 10 is far better then say number 25.
Ray McDonald, listed as a DE, number 6 rated
Jay Moore, DE, number 15 rated
Dashon Goldson, FS Number 10 rated. That's not bad to get him in the 4th. Hope he's good.
Joe Cohen, DT, unknown, unlisted, unrank
Tarell Brown CB, Number 12, runs a 4.45, was supposed to go in 3rd
Clayton Thomas, RB Unrank and unlisted
So...out of the 9 we took, 7 listed, 2 unlisted, 4 in the top 10, 5 below, none of them at number 20.
Now see? I got no problem at all with these picks except for Thomas' character issues.
As for Patrick Willis, can we say goodbye to D SMith. Now, between J Peterson and D SMith, why in the hell did we let Peterson go to Seattle? But now with D Jackson, I consider it payback.