{"id":286483,"date":"2026-04-26T05:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/286483\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T05:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:46:14","slug":"the-49ers-have-selected-an-offensive-tackle-with-their-final-pick-in-the-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/286483\/","title":{"rendered":"The 49ers have selected an offensive tackle with their final pick 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 selected offensive tackle Enrique Cruz from Kansas. Cruz was the Jawyhawks\u2019 right tackle in 2025. He played at Syracuse during his first three years. He played right tackle with the Orange as a sophomore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cruz is undersized, relative to what the 49ers generally look for in a tackle. At 6\u20195 1\/2, 313 pounds, he\u2019s in the 45th percentile for height and 48th percentile in weight. Cruz\u2019s arm length of 33 3\/4\u201d puts him in the 35th percentile. However, his athletic testing was off the charts. His 40, vertical, and broad jumps are all in the 95th percentile or higher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Enrique Cruz Jr. is quick out of his stance with good length to initially cover up targets and plays with a red-hot motor that shows up in his effort to finish. However, his upright playing style and marginal redirect ability limit his upside. The concerns found within his game point toward a backup projection in the NFL, with his clearest path to sticking on a roster likely coming through developing positional flexibility at guard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Thorn gave Cruz a seventh-round grade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers selected offensive tackle Enrique Cruz from Kansas. Cruz was the Jawyhawks\u2019 right tackle in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,51924,70272,8376,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-286483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers-analysis","tag-san-francisco-49ers-draft","tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","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\/286483","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=286483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}