Every San Francisco 49ers fan remembers what happened early in 2015.
That was the year of the purge and mass exodus… the transition under then-head coach Jim Harbaugh and a perennial Super Bowl contender to one-and-done head coach Jim Tomsula and the laughingstock years between then and the early days of 2017, before the John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan regime took over.
Yes, those years were bad. And for a team lacking in so many departments, it wasn’t uncommon to see wide receiver pegged as the Niners’ No. 1 NFL Draft need from then until now.