{"id":619050,"date":"2026-05-02T10:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T10:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/619050\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T10:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T10:25:15","slug":"the-49ers-werent-sure-if-kaelon-black-would-last-until-the-4th-round-of-the-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/619050\/","title":{"rendered":"The 49ers weren\u2019t sure if Kaelon Black would last until the 4th round of the NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cYou got a guy who\u2019s not invited to the Combine, so what does that mean? Man, maybe it means he\u2019s going in the sixth round. But then you evaluate him, you\u2019re like, \u2018Man, I think this is a third-round running back.\u2019 But then you start to watch the whole draft, and you start to watch all the backs, and evaluate all the backs together, and this wasn\u2019t as deep of a draft as years past for running backs. And when you look at it all, and you take a census of scouts, of coaches&#8211;it\u2019s a whole process- but you start to get to April, and the majority of our place is ranking him up there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYou got a guy who\u2019s not invited to the Combine, so what does that mean? Man, maybe it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,243816,47545,2745,99],"class_list":["post-619050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco-49ers-draft","tag-san-francisco-49ers-roster","tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619050","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=619050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619050\/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=619050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}