{"id":285935,"date":"2026-04-25T20:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/285935\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T20:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:34:11","slug":"49ers-enrique-cruz-selected-by-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/285935\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers&#8217; Enrique Cruz: Selected by San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/SF\/san-francisco-49ers\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/429.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/SF\/san-francisco-49ers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">49ers<\/a> selected Cruz in the fifth round of the 2026 NFL Draft, 179th overall.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz (6-foot-6, 313 pounds) might lack the size and reach (33 and 3\/4-inch arms) to stick at tackle, but the Kansas product is extremely athletic and might be able to develop into a noteworthy guard if tackle doesn&#8217;t work out.  It didn&#8217;t work out at tackle when Cruz was at Syracuse from 2021 to 2024 &#8212; he was benched as left tackle after starting there in his sophomore and junior years. Cruz played right tackle with more success for Kansas, but his 4.9 speed and 35-inch vertical still might work better at guard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 49ers selected Cruz in the fifth round of the 2026 NFL Draft, 179th overall. Cruz (6-foot-6, 313&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[122499,10564,101,296,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-285935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-enrique-cruz-jr","9":"tag-fantasy-football","10":"tag-san-francisco","11":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","12":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","13":"tag-san-francisco-news","14":"tag-sf","15":"tag-sf-headlines","16":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285935","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=285935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}