The San Francisco 49ers front office watched the NFL Draft play itself out without making any moves. On a day when we were told wide receivers Brandon Aiyuk and Deebo Samuel were being dangled as trade pieces to move up into the draft, John Lynch and company ended up staying put at No. 31 and selecting Florida wide receiver Ricky Pearsall.
Pearsall was expected to be a second-round pick by most draft experts, ranking as the 48th-best prospect the consensus board compiled by Arif Hasan, behind other receivers who were available like Georgia’s Ladd McConkey and Texas’ Adonai Mitchell.