The San Francisco 49ers found their edge rusher in the draft. The team took Texas Tech\u2019s Romello Height. He\u2019s 6\u20193\u201d, 239 pounds. The arm length of 32 1\/4 is in the 12th percentile. He\u2019s small, but he\u2019s fast, like, really fast. Height\u2019s speed popped when you watched the Red Raiders. He ran a 4.64 4 with a 39\u201d vertical (94th percentile).<\/p>\n
He was 74th on SB Nation\u2019s big board, so this is right around the area Height was expected to be drafted. Height is the designed pass rusher the 49ers were looking for on obvious passing downs to move the quarterback off his spot and ideally into Mykel Williams, Nick Bosa, or Osa Odighizuwa.<\/p>\n
Height shouldn\u2019t be a surprise. He visited the 49ers in a top-30 visit<\/a>. The 49ers found their designated pass rusher to replace Bryce Huff. Height has plenty of juice. If the 49ers don\u2019t feel like they need an edge rusher early<\/a>, Height\u2019s style is closer to Bryce Huff. Not only does Height have the speed, but his effort also jumps out.<\/p>\n The sixth-year senior only lined up in a three-point stance 2% of the time last season. He had 9.5 sacks, 35 quarterback hits, and 59 pressures. His pressure rate was an outrageous 20%. Throw in 14 tackles for loss and getting that kind of production in the role Height would play at the end of the third round feels like solid value for the 49ers.<\/p>\n Height is the second player whose dad was a Marine. That reflects both of their efforts to play to and through the whistle, and do so violently.<\/p>\n Height was second among all EDGE rushers in this draft in win percentage at 22.5 percent, slightly behind Rueben Bain Jr.\u2018s 22.9%. Height was third in quick pressure percentage and fourth in pressure percentage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers found their edge rusher in the draft. The team took Texas Tech\u2019s Romello Height.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[173680,47545,55077,2745,99],"class_list":["post-604859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-san-francisco-49ers-analysis","tag-san-francisco-49ers-roster","tag-san-francisco-49ers-scores-and-results","tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}