{"id":605212,"date":"2026-04-25T07:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/605212\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T07:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:44:10","slug":"why-the-49ers-drafted-a-running-back-in-the-3rd-round-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/605212\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the 49ers drafted a running back in the 3rd round again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cOne of the former James Madison players who followed Curt Cignetti to Bloomington, the 5-10, 210-pounder rushed for 251 yards and two TDs in limited action,\u201d Feldman wrote. \u201cBlack vertical jumped 40 inches, bench pressed 415 pounds and squatted over 500 this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cHe\u2019s our biggest Freak for sure,\u201d said DL Mikail Kamara. \u201cWhen he lifts, everything moves so fast. He\u2019s ridiculous. I\u2019ve never seen him struggle (in the weight room). I saw him bench press 415 the other day, and it was butter. It touched his chest and went right back up. It looked like a warmup set. And he\u2019s hella fast.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOne of the former James Madison players who followed Curt Cignetti to Bloomington, the 5-10, 210-pounder rushed for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,243816,2745,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-605212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-draft","10":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605212","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=605212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}