Brandon Aiyuk is a 49er! Pick #25, 2020 NFL Draft

If he develops and plays well, no one will care or hardly remember we traded up for him.

Originally posted by TheXFactor:

If he develops and plays well, no one will care or hardly remember we traded up for him.

Well yeah but devils advocate, if he doesn't then everyone sure will. Pettis was traded up for in the 2nd, Aiyuk in the 1st and we also passed up Jeudy and Lamb before that.

Originally posted by 49ers808:

Originally posted by thl408:

Originally posted by 9er4lyphe:

Based on what I'm gathering through several chats, sounds that 49ers were concerned about Packers drafting Brandon Aiyuk at No. 26. Lynch/Shanahan spoke of "intel" that spurred SF trade up to 25; that might've been it.

GB picked Jordan Love at 26; Aiyuk gone by then of course

— David Lombardi (@LombardiHimself) April 29, 2020

I thought it seemed like the 49ers were scared of MIA taking Aiyuk (MIA sitting at #26). Once Aiyuk was taken, MIA traded out of 26. It makes little sense for GB to have their eye on Aiyuk then once Aiyuk was taken, GB decided "forget getting help for Rodgers (Aiyuk), let's just take Rodgers' replacement"

This. All of it is pure speculation anyway, nobody knows, including the 49ers. They said the same with Pettis and I highly highly doubt anyone was taking him in the 2nd. Just call a spade a spade, they wanted their guy and made sure to get him, no need to justify the move to anyone when you're the decision makers

Packers GM actually admitted Pettis was in play for them. They took JJ instead.

Originally posted by TheXFactor:

If he develops and plays well, no one will care or hardly remember we traded up for him.

The Vikings will if Justin Jefferson is a bust.

Went to look up the article about Packers GM saying Pettis was in play for them and found this brilliance from one of their fans trying to say 49ers fell for them being interested in Pettis.

The San Francisco 49ers, however, have the worst front office in the NFL. In early 2017, meddling trust-fund baby owner Jed York scared off good GM candidates like Brian Gutekunst and Elliot Wolf, and wound up settling for the inexperienced John Lynch. His staff was snookered by the Packers' smoke screen on Pettis

Wonder how they feel now...

Originally posted by genus49:

Went to look up the article about Packers GM saying Pettis was in play for them and found this brilliance from one of their fans trying to say 49ers fell for them being interested in Pettis.

The San Francisco 49ers, however, have the worst front office in the NFL. In early 2017, meddling trust-fund baby owner Jed York scared off good GM candidates like Brian Gutekunst and Elliot Wolf, and wound up settling for the inexperienced John Lynch. His staff was snookered by the Packers' smoke screen on Pettis

Wonder how they feel now...

Hah! That article did not age well

Originally posted by philosoraptor:
Not happy that they traded up for him still, But I'm really excited to see him play in this offense. He looks so damn fast. I think he's gonna be legit.

Were you happy they traded down a spot to get the value to trade up later in the round for him?

Like almost 70% of 1st round WRs aren't legit. If you think this guy bucks that trend,...then why wouldn't he be worth giving away an extra day 3 pick?

Chris Simms said that he knew for a while that Aiyuk was the guy for Kyle.
They talked a lot about the draft and Kyle even asked Chris if he thought that it would be crazy to take Aiyuk 13.
Simms said that he was less high on Aiyuk than his buddy but that if there was someone to trust on WR evaluation, that was Kyle.
He also said that he had to not talk too much about Aiyuk on his WR ranking and not put him in his mock draft to not screw Kyle.
And apparently they talked a lot about Kinlaw also and both of them thought that he wouldn´t be there at 13.

Originally posted by pdc20:

Chris Simms said that he knew for a while that Aiyuk was the guy for Kyle.
They talked a lot about the draft and Kyle even asked Chris if he thought that it would be crazy to take Aiyuk 13.
Simms said that he was less high on Aiyuk than his buddy but that if there was someone to trust on WR evaluation, that was Kyle.
He also said that he had to not talk too much about Aiyuk on his WR ranking and not put him in his mock draft to not screw Kyle.
And apparently they talked a lot about Kinlaw also and both of them thought that he wouldn´t be there at 13.

Originally posted by Nastastical:

Originally posted by pdc20:

Chris Simms said that he knew for a while that Aiyuk was the guy for Kyle.
They talked a lot about the draft and Kyle even asked Chris if he thought that it would be crazy to take Aiyuk 13.
Simms said that he was less high on Aiyuk than his buddy but that if there was someone to trust on WR evaluation, that was Kyle.
He also said that he had to not talk too much about Aiyuk on his WR ranking and not put him in his mock draft to not screw Kyle.
And apparently they talked a lot about Kinlaw also and both of them thought that he wouldn´t be there at 13.

I'm watching the saints/49ers game and how heavily they relied on sanders... this kid is going to have some big shoes to fill

Originally posted by TheXFactor:
If he develops and plays well, no one will care or hardly remember we traded up for him.

As is true with all prospects.

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:

Originally posted by maxsmart:
That's an old calculator that under values rd 4-7 picks,
the football guys calculator is better (link on top of draft forum) says we gave up a little too much

You realize that every team has a slightly different chart?

Yeah, but this one let's him sound smart questioning the pick.

Originally posted by susweel:

Originally posted by DonnieDarko:

Originally posted by susweel:
Never heard of him.

Could have just took ceedee lamb and kept the other picks.

well see but not good draft thus far

kinlaw and aiyuk weren't on sus's big board

Aiyuk is a stupid last name. Won't be good

You seem to be ashamed of your entire name, leaving it off your forum account. Is it no good either?

Originally posted by Cisco0623:

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:

Steve Smith Sr. knows a little bit about WRs. And he's a big fan of WR Brandon Aiyuk pic.twitter.com/5tCjrAegtU

— ESPN 1320 Sacramento (@ESPN1320) April 24, 2020

Is it wrong i can only see that dudes Ears. He must be picking up SETI signals. lol

Nope, he probably heard you typing that, lol.