{"id":215858,"date":"2026-03-12T02:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/215858\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T02:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:57:16","slug":"49ers-earn-solid-grade-for-osa-odighizuwa-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/215858\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers earn solid grade for Osa Odighizuwa trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

The San Francisco 49ers addressed a significant need on Wednesday, agreeing to send a third-round draft pick to the Dallas Cowboys<\/a> for defensive tackle Osa Odighizuwa<\/a>. The move bolsters a defensive line that struggled with consistency throughout the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

San Francisco invested heavily in the defensive front last year, using three draft picks on defensive linemen. First-round selection Mykel Williams<\/a> saw his 2025 campaign cut short by an ACL injury.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, defensive tackles Alfred Collins<\/a> and CJ West<\/a> showed flashes of promise but finished with the lowest overall Pro Football Focus (PFF) grades on the team (35.0). Both players are expected to improve with additional experience.<\/p>\n

Beyond adding a proven interior starter, the Odighizuwa trade also addresses another major offseason concern: the pass rush. The 49ers recorded just 20 sacks last season\u2014by far the fewest in the NFL.<\/p>\n

Odighizuwa has generated an impressive 112 quarterback pressures over the past two seasons. While his PFF pass-rush grade was solid in 2025 (71.5), it was even stronger in 2024 (78.5) and 2023 (78.7).<\/p>\n

Garrett Podell of CBS Sports evaluated the trade<\/a>, giving the 49ers a B+ grade and the Cowboys a C+. Podell believes Dallas made the move out of desperation, while San Francisco made a strong move to upgrade its defensive front.<\/p>\n

Podell pointed specifically to the 49ers’ need to improve their pass rush.<\/p>\n

“That was especially true at the defensive tackle spot with San Francisco’s 49ers combining for just 1.5 sacks, 46 quarterback pressures, and a 5.1% quarterback pressure rate in 2025,” Podell wrote. “Those were all the fewest in each metric at the defensive tackle position among the league’s 32 teams.<\/p>\n

“Odighizuwa will provide a huge boost to that position in San Francisco, and parting with a third-round pick to fill that need is pretty good value. Between him turning 28 in August and having three years left on a four-year, $80 million contract, the 49ers made away with solid value.”<\/p>\n

Why not a higher grade?<\/p>\n

Podell added, “If this was a fourth-round pick or lower, the grade would have been in the A range.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers addressed a significant need on Wednesday, agreeing to send a third-round draft pick to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1818,19869,22370,752,101,296,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-215858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-49ers","tag-alfred-collins","tag-mykel-williams","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}