A few weeks have passed since the NFL draft, when many of the nation\u2019s top college athletes heard their names called.<\/p>\n
Among them was Virginia Beach native and Salem High School graduate Kaelon Black.<\/p>\n
Black was selected No. 90 overall in the third round by the San Francisco 49ers following a standout senior season at Indiana. He rushed for more than 1,000 yards, recorded the best year of his college career and helped lead the Hoosiers to a national championship while playing a key role in transforming the program.<\/p>\n
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Black was taken on Day 2 of the draft and was the third running back selected.<\/p>\n
Adding running backs has become a trend for San Francisco in recent years. Black is the sixth running back the 49ers have drafted in the past six drafts.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had him as the second-rated back on the board,\u201d coach Kyle Shanahan said during an appearance on \u201cThe Rich Eisen Show.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s just our evaluation, right or wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
Black is set to begin rookie minicamp on May 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A few weeks have passed since the NFL draft, when many of the nation\u2019s top college athletes heard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,308979,593,315745,1262,85,315746,11032],"class_list":["post-652832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-kaelon-black","tag-nfl","tag-salem-high-school","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-sports","tag-top-college-athletes","tag-virginia-beach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}