If you go back through the archives, it wouldn’t be hard to find notions for the San Francisco 49ers taking a free safety at some point early in the 2019 NFL Draft.
Turns out, general manager John Lynch and Co. didn’t end up grabbing a safety at all in the draft. While the team did reinforce its secondary depth with Virginia cornerback Tim Harris in Round 6 and added some undrafted free-agent defensive backs, not using a mid- or late-round pick on a safety has to be viewed as one of the Niners’ primary draft failures, right?