Despite the parity in the NFL, many a rebuilding team will take at least two or three years to fully achieve goals using the NFL Draft alone.
For the San Francisco 49ers, who’ll look to put some finishing touches in the upcoming 2019 draft, the three-year period between 2016 and now sure has its share of ups and downs.
Fans need no reminder the 2016 NFL Draft was the final put together by then-general manager Trent Baalke, who oversaw one of the worst deconstructions of a perennial Super Bowl-contending roster in recent memory. And despite coming away with 11 total selections that year, only a handful would find themselves on the Niners roster a year later when the tandem of John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan took over.