{"id":284960,"date":"2026-04-25T04:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/284960\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T04:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:23:08","slug":"49ers-select-rb-kaelon-black-with-the-no-90-pick-in-the-2026-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/284960\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers Select RB Kaelon Black with the No. 90 Pick in the 2026 NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco 49ers have selected running back <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.49ers.com\/team\/players-roster\/kaelon-black\/\" title=\"Kaelon Black\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kaelon Black<\/a> from Indiana University with the 90th-overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Black played six collegiate seasons between Indiana University and James Madison and was a key contributor in a versatile offensive role. He earned Paul Hornung Award Honor Roll recognition during his time at James Madison. Over his career, he totaled 2,261 rushing yards with multiple 100-yard rushing games, and found the end zone 10 times during his final season at Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>At 5&#8217;9 and 208 pounds, Black <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/prospects\/kaelon-black\/3200424c-4109-7235-2975-c002348bcd9e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">impressed scouts<\/a> with his aggressive running style, ability to finish through contact, and consistent forward momentum. Black runs with strong hips and a &#8220;fall-forward&#8221; mentality, using his strength to grind out extra yards and keep drives moving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers have selected running back Kaelon Black from Indiana University with the 90th-overall pick in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[62931,113115,122092,51513,57121,809,810,122171,808,93300,100,93299,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-284960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-2026-draft","9":"tag-2026-draft-news","10":"tag-2026-draft-round-3","11":"tag-brooke-evans","12":"tag-draft","13":"tag-english","14":"tag-english-articles","15":"tag-kaelon-black","16":"tag-latest-app","17":"tag-netapp","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-news-draft","20":"tag-san-francisco","21":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","22":"tag-san-francisco-news","23":"tag-sf","24":"tag-sf-headlines","25":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284960","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=284960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}