{"id":265572,"date":"2026-04-13T13:50:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/265572\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T13:50:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:50:31","slug":"2026-nfl-mock-draft-san-francisco-49ers-select-caleb-lomu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/265572\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL mock draft: San Francisco 49ers select Caleb Lomu"},"content":{"rendered":"

The San Francisco 49ers are looking for a succession plan to their future Hall of Fame tackle Trent Williams. So the run on offensive tackles continues as at pick number 27 the fifth tackle comes off the board in the form of Caleb Lomu an offensive tackle out of Utah. With this pick they get one of the true left tackles projected to be picked early in this draft.<\/p>\n

Lomu (21) is a redshirt sophomore with 22 college starts under his belt. While watching film on Lomu, you can\u2019t help but see his quick feet for the big man that he is\u2014with a RAS score of 9.88 that ranks him 19th out off all tackles since 1987. This score is higher than his teammate Spencer Fano, who went to the Lions earlier in this draft.<\/a> The biggest knock on Lomu is his play strength. Cited as more of a positional blocker who doesn\u2019t displace defensive lineman enough to be considered a great run blocker. With that said, his athleticism helps him being able to get position and he is great at pulling around and finding his man. His pass blocking however is excellent. Allowing zero sacks, only two QB hits and six hurries in his final year at Utah he\u2019s a great blindside protector.<\/p>\n

The only question is that with Trent Williams still being a great player and the 49ers recently extending right tackle Colton McKivitz, some may say this is a luxury pick and in some ways it is. But with Williams turning 38 before the season starts and niners currently in contract restructuring negotiations with him (again), it\u2019s just a matter of time they are in a big need for a replacement. I believe that guy will be Lomu a young athletic tackle ready to learn from an all time great until it\u2019s his time to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers are looking for a succession plan to their future Hall of Fame tackle Trent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[112265,112266,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-265572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-detroit-lions-draft","9":"tag-detroit-lions-mock-draft","10":"tag-san-francisco","11":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","12":"tag-san-francisco-news","13":"tag-sf","14":"tag-sf-headlines","15":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265572","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=265572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}