{"id":285905,"date":"2026-04-25T20:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/285905\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T20:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:10:08","slug":"the-49ers-drafted-a-speedy-linebacker-with-pick-no-154-in-the-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/285905\/","title":{"rendered":"The 49ers drafted a speedy linebacker with pick No. 154 in the NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The San Francisco 49ers traded linebacker Dee Winters to the Dallas Cowboys. Now, with the 154th pick in the NFL Draft, the team selected Jaden Dugger from Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Dugger played 833 snaps this past season for the Ragin\u2019 Cajuns. At 6\u20195\u201d, 242, Dugger ran a 4.61 40 at Louisiana\u2019s Pro Day. He had a 34.5\u201d vertical, but impressed with a 7-second three-cone drill. His 10-foot-6 broad jump is good for the high 80th percentile<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Duggar transferred from Georgetown after his freshman and sophomore years. He was a first-team All-Sun Belt player, where he recorded 125 tackles and four sacks as a senior. He also earned second-team All-Patriot League honors as a sophomore playing safety for the Hoyas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Judging by his usage in college, Dugger is the player to walk down on the line of scrimmage and potentially rush the passer, play in underneath coverage, and set the edge against the run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">His RAS score is all green:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">At the very worst, you\u2019re getting a long, elite athlete to improve your special teams speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers traded linebacker Dee Winters to the Dallas Cowboys. Now, with the 154th pick in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,70272,8376,3323,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-285905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers-draft","tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","tag-san-francisco-49ers-roster","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\/285905","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=285905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}