Born and raised on the East Coast, Eli Harold doesn’t know too many details about the San Francisco 49ers storied history.
But the team’s third-round draft pick does know all about two current players: one is a hero at his alma mater and the other served as a screen-saver on his iPad.
Harold, a linebacker from Virginia, saw constant reminders of Ahmad Brooks on campus in Charlottesville. He also studied film of and tried to model his game after Aldon Smith.
“When I hear the word 49ers, I immediately think of those two,” Harold told reporters on Friday during the second day of the 2015 NFL Draft.