The San Francisco 49ers lost a draft pick and had another one fall lower in the draft on Monday due to a series of administrative payroll accounting errors, the NFL announced.
The 49ers will lose their fifth-round pick in the 2025 draft completely, and their fourth-round pick in this year’s draft will drop from No. 131 to No. 135. The NFL said the payroll errors were from the end of the 2022 league year, and that they resulted in “a misreporting of the team’s cumulative player compensation.”
Despite the errors, the league said the 49ers would have remained under the salary cap at all times, and that this was not done in an intent to circumvent the salary cap.