The 2016 San Francisco 49ers are a pretty bad team. OK, they’re really bad. And, chances are, they’ll own another top pick in the upcoming 2017 NFL Draft.
There’s a short answer why things came to be this way. And many fans and analysts point back to the horrid 2015 offseason in which the Niners lost an overwhelming abundance of talent.
Yes, it hurt. And yes, a good chunk of that talent was the reason San Francisco made it to three consecutive NFC Championship games and one Super Bowl appearance.
But we can’t simply place blame on these en masse departures from just over a year ago.