After not making a single trade in the 2025 NFL Draft and sticking with all 11 of their draft picks, the San Francisco 49ers traded back for a third time on Friday night, moving from No. 58 to No. 70, where they selected Texas Tech edge rusher Romello Height.<\/p>\n
San Francisco moved down with the Cleveland Browns, who traded up to take sliding safety Emmanuel McNeil-Warren, receiving the No. 107 pick while sending back the No. 152 pick as well.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s evaluate the trade back and the draft pick, as the 49ers added another edge rusher to their arsenal.<\/p>\n
Should the 49ers have traded back?<\/p>\n
San Francisco moved back for a third time, acquiring yet another asset in the fourth round while offloading the fifth-round pick they received from the Dallas Cowboys in the Dee Winters trade on Friday.<\/p>\n
According to the Jimmy Johnson trade value chart, it was a slight underpay on the Browns side, but in a draft that isn\u2019t considered strong on Day 3, acquiring more midround picks, which they can either use or package in another trade.<\/p>\n
When you consider the players that were taken between Nos. 58 and 70, I don\u2019t think there were many picks that San Francisco would\u2019ve truly considered. Three tight ends, two safeties, a linebacker, and a quarterback were among the picks taken, while there were several defensive linemen and edge rushers taken as well.<\/p>\n
And of the latter, only Keyron Crawford, who went at No. 68 to Las Vegas, would\u2019ve made sense for the 49ers. So, while it is underwhelming, San Francisco didn\u2019t really miss out on much with the move back to 70.<\/p>\n
Who else was available at 70?<\/p>\n
This is the bigger question. Who else could the 49ers have targeted at No. 70?<\/p>\n
We do know that the 49ers were targeting an edge rusher, and Height is one of the better pure pass rushers in the class (more on that below), but who else would\u2019ve made sense at 70?<\/p>\n
An offensive lineman still remains a need, and Iowa\u2019s Gennings Dunker, Northwestern\u2019s Caleb Tiernan, and Oregon\u2019s Emmanuel Pregnon, who was considered by many as a potential second-round pick, were all on the board. But they all fell far past the 49ers pick at No. 70, so it doesn\u2019t seem like San Francisco misread the board there.<\/p>\n
There were also a couple of defensive tackles on the board, but that wasn\u2019t the biggest need for the 49ers, especially in comparison to an edge.<\/p>\n
A running back could\u2019ve made sense, with Arkansas\u2019s Mike Washington Jr., being the top pick. But there\u2019s also better depth in the fourth round, where the 49ers are well equipped to make a move.<\/p>\n
Really, at this pick, an edge rusher or an offensive lineman made the most sense, and the 49ers took their pick of the litter.<\/p>\n
Evaluating the Height pick<\/p>\n
After reaching in comparison to consensus for Stribling, the 49ers were right around consensus for Height, who was seen as a Day 2 pick by most evaluators.<\/p>\n
Coming into this draft, I had edge rusher as a key need for the 49ers, specifically a pass-rush specialist with a special get-off. That\u2019s Height, who essentially fills the Bryce Huff role after the veteran\u2019s retirement this offseason.<\/p>\n
Height\u2019s pass rush win rate was second among all edge rushers in this class at 22.5 percent, which Kyle mentioned, and he seems to fit exactly what the 49ers need as a rotational pass rusher.<\/p>\n
Now, Height is listed at 239 pounds, so he\u2019ll need to get stronger, but the 49ers got a good fit at a position of need without reaching here. Pretty good evaluation after trading back and picking up additional assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After not making a single trade in the 2025 NFL Draft and sticking with all 11 of their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,243816,2745,452,453],"class_list":["post-604941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-san-francisco-49ers-draft","tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604941","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=604941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}