79 Bear said:
Yes and the Niners potentially lose a lot of their defensive backfield to free agency this year. They just signed Moseley but it's unclear what will happen with the others that they may lose. Sherman is almost certainly gone. I hope they keep Verett.
calumnus said:79 Bear said:
Yes and the Niners potentially lose a lot of their defensive backfield to free agency this year. They just signed Moseley but it's unclear what will happen with the others that they may lose. Sherman is almost certainly gone. I hope they keep Verett.
Hope springs eternal.
The last time the 49ers drafted a Cal player was Andre Carter 20 years ago when ex-Niner Tom Holmoe was the Cal coach and Mooch was the Niner coach. Never drafted a Cal player under Tedford, Dukes or Wilcox.
Since then while drafting zero from Cal they have drafted 5 players from Stanford and signed numerous Stanford players as undrafted free agents.
Since 1956, apart from a short period with the Holmoe/Mooch connection, the Niners have drafted 4 Cal players in 60 years.
During that time they drafted 15 Stanford players and 11 BYU players.
The 49ers have never had a Cal QB. The only Cal QB the 49ers ever drafted was Bob Celeri in the 10th round in 1950. He never signed with them and played baseball for the Yankees instead.
49er history is filled with Stanford QBs. A former Stanford QB is their current GM.
When they needed a LB they chose Todd Shell of BYU over Ron Rivera. When they needed a QB they chose Alex Smith of Utah over Aaron Rodgers.
Steve Rivera was not given much of a chance with the Niners. Walsh cut Matt Bouza, who had a couple of good years in the league. The Niners kept Mike Schuman who was not nearly as good as Bouza.HearstMining said:
Well into the 1960s, college football/basketball were still the top dogs with respect to both attendence and TV exposure. The pro teams, as a way of generating local interest, frequently did draft/sign local college players as a way of generating fan interest. Checking some old NFL rosters for the 49ers and Raiders, it doesn't look like they did a lot of this. Through much of the 1960s, the 49ers had Brodie from Stanford and Matt Hazeltine from Cal. The 49ers did draft Steve Rivera in 1976, but he only stuck for a year. Steve Sweeney played a season for the Raiders and Jeff Barnes had a nice career with them, but that's about it. Both teams had as many players from San Jose St. as Cal/Stanford. Who knew that the first great Raider receiver, Art Powell, went to San Jose St? I did see one Cal player's name on the Raider roster for 1964, Proverb Jacobs. He was my PE teacher at Berkeley's Garfield (now Martin Luther King) Jr High in 1968.
hanky1 said:
There's one mock draft out there that has Bynyum in the first round.
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2021-nfl-mock-draft-jets-take-justin-fields-bengals-protect-joe-burrow-lions-get-jared-goff-a-weapon/?fbclid=IwAR2HE_q90iKME6LzjllpEZKIsO_Nssw2ZYpmr1Jedq70RLfh9LP9ZiFCj88
