With nine days—and counting—until the 2015 NFL draft, rumors are flying about the San Francisco 49ers. Whom will they draft? Will they trade up, trade down or stand pat? Are they satisfied with their current roster at, for example, offensive guard or cornerback, or are those potential first-round targets? What draft reports hint at a potential strategy, and which are so much smoke?
Obviously, we won’t really know for sure until the draft begins on April 30, but we can at least start peeling through the layers of rumors, trying to separate the fact from the fiction and the wise plans from the poorly thought-out ones.