All Pro OT Trent Williams "Silverback",

Originally posted by Bobdawg78:
Just to be TECHNICALLY correct, we traded away our 2020 5th round pick, and our 2021 3rd round pick for T. Williams. If Williams leaves in FA after the 2020 season, we COULD net a 3rd round comp pick in the 2022 draft, NOT 2021 like most on here are implying. The 3rd round comp pick, is also basically a early 4th round pick, since comp picks come after the initial round ends, but before the 4th round begins.

I like the move, and I personally hope Williams signs an extension with us right now for something like 5 years and 90-100 million with like 60 million guaranteed. This way we lock him up long term, and can get out from his deal in 3 years if he declines too rapidly. Here's to hoping Brunskill takes that RG spot, and dominates.

I think we are hoping the 2021 3rd round pick we gave up would be basically be an early 4th round pick as well.

Originally posted by AB81Rules:

Originally posted by kezar49er:
Stupid. They pass on Wirfs, a talented 10 year tackle prospect. If they knew Staley was not coming back there was plenty of defensive tackles in free agency that cost what you're going to pay William's that would've been perfectly fine for the time being. Defensive tackles are a dime a dozen compared to talented offense tackles.

How is it stupid, they just got a 7 time pro bowl LT for peanuts, so what they didn't know for sure on Day 1, they got him, can't people just be happy and not get all pissed off. Plus why draft a rookie LT to protect Jimmy, doubt a rookie would do well on a SB roster, sorry never happening. Plus Wirfs is a RT, not a LT, and MM isn't moving to LT.

Is Trent Williams already a HOF?

Is Trent Williams the best Tackle of his generation?

When you have questions like this, how is bringing him in a mistake? When you can argue those things the player is special. A drafted player comes with many more question marks;

Can he play?

Will he be able to contribute right away?

We won today!

Originally posted by NCommand:

He literally just swapped out one starter with another...again. I love the trade but he's done nothing to update. It's not bashing him...it's stating facts.

And draft Wirfs would have been a MASSIVE downgrade

Originally posted by Jcool:

@TrentW71 I know the feeling well. But you will love @RSherman_25 as a teammate..... welcome to the Niners big fella! https://t.co/cZwWWG3yOq

— Jed York (@JedYork) April 25, 2020

Kinda stupid to post that Jed, I'm pretty sure both remember that. After all this is the internets where you can see everything on the line.

Originally posted by jimrat:
Williams and Sherman

dat punch though.

Originally posted by Shorteous:

Originally posted by Bobdawg78:
Just to be TECHNICALLY correct, we traded away our 2020 5th round pick, and our 2021 3rd round pick for T. Williams. If Williams leaves in FA after the 2020 season, we COULD net a 3rd round comp pick in the 2022 draft, NOT 2021 like most on here are implying. The 3rd round comp pick, is also basically a early 4th round pick, since comp picks come after the initial round ends, but before the 4th round begins.

I like the move, and I personally hope Williams signs an extension with us right now for something like 5 years and 90-100 million with like 60 million guaranteed. This way we lock him up long term, and can get out from his deal in 3 years if he declines too rapidly. Here's to hoping Brunskill takes that RG spot, and dominates.

We should get a third round comp
Pick for 2021 draft for the Sanders departure.

Nah, probably a 4th. His contract wasn't that big.

Originally posted by Jcool:

@TrentW71 I know the feeling well. But you will love @RSherman_25 as a teammate..... welcome to the Niners big fella! https://t.co/cZwWWG3yOq

— Jed York (@JedYork) April 25, 2020

haha not gonna lie i respected williams so much after that we all hated sherm at the time

Originally posted by glorydayz:

Is Trent Williams already a HOF?

Is Trent Williams the best Tackle of his generation?

When you have questions like this, how is bringing him in a mistake? When you can argue those things the player is special. A drafted player comes with many more question marks;

Can he play?

Will he be able to contribute right away?

We won today!

Anyone calling this Not a win is being stupid plain and simple

Originally posted by FredFlintstone:

Originally posted by AB81Rules:

Originally posted by kezar49er:
Stupid. They pass on Wirfs, a talented 10 year tackle prospect. If they knew Staley was not coming back there was plenty of defensive tackles in free agency that cost what you're going to pay William's that would've been perfectly fine for the time being. Defensive tackles are a dime a dozen compared to talented offense tackles.

How is it stupid, they just got a 7 time pro bowl LT for peanuts, so what they didn't know for sure on Day 1, they got him, can't people just be happy and not get all pissed off. Plus why draft a rookie LT to protect Jimmy, doubt a rookie would do well on a SB roster, sorry never happening. Plus Wirfs is a RT, not a LT, and MM isn't moving to LT.

I don't get why a lot are upset on not getting Wirfs when it's obvious the team didn't think highly of him as well as the other teams in front and even the Jets who took Becton before him. This is not some generational LT whose a can't miss while folks mad we got Williams a 7 time pro bowler whose younger than Staley and honestly better for pretty much a peanut butter and jelly sandwich

Plus Williams already knows Shanny's system in a year where OTA's and Mini Camps are not going to happen.

Boom! 💪💪👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 Sad to see Joe retire but we upgraded imo and even got a little younger at LT

Originally posted by gold49digger:

Originally posted by Jcool:

@TrentW71 I know the feeling well. But you will love @RSherman_25 as a teammate..... welcome to the Niners big fella! https://t.co/cZwWWG3yOq

— Jed York (@JedYork) April 25, 2020

haha not gonna lie i respected williams so much after that we all hated sherm at the time

Originally posted by TyCore:

Originally posted by 49erminion:

I actually like this.

I want a little attitude, some rough-around-the-edges mentality that we're kinda lacking.

I don't want a perennial Jovan Belcher Commitment to Excellence Award winner that KC seems to covet, but I'd like something that gives us more of an edge when it counts. We need chips on our shoulder--the feel good UDFA stories are great but losing a superbowl is making me look elsewhere for inspiration.

T.W not screwing around, all heart and won't back down!

We needed this attitude up front. Plus he socked Sherman so fast, he looked like Suge Knight in his prime LOL

Originally posted by FredFlintstone:

This is a steal!!!

I agree. Cleveland offered a first rd pick for him just last year

Originally posted by Bobdawg78:
Just to be TECHNICALLY correct, we traded away our 2020 5th round pick, and our 2021 3rd round pick for T. Williams. If Williams leaves in FA after the 2020 season, we COULD net a 3rd round comp pick in the 2022 draft, NOT 2021 like most on here are implying. The 3rd round comp pick, is also basically a early 4th round pick, since comp picks come after the initial round ends, but before the 4th round begins.

I like the move, and I personally hope Williams signs an extension with us right now for something like 5 years and 90-100 million with like 60 million guaranteed. This way we lock him up long term, and can get out from his deal in 3 years if he declines too rapidly. Here's to hoping Brunskill takes that RG spot, and dominates.

I agree with you. The 49ers are loaded with talent and nobody knows how long the window is going to be open, so I like that the team is taking a shot to land a proven player. With the talent on the roster the time is now for San Francisco, so drafting an OT is a bit of a risk for the team. I personally would rather have Kinlaw and Williams over Wirfs and some 5th rounder. The one downside is they've lost a 3rd rounder next season and the lack of draft picks will eventually cause them some problems. For now, I'm a happy camper.

Going from Staley to Williams amounts to a wash in salary cap terms so that's good, and going from Buckner to Kinlaw helps on the salary cap front. I could add that Aiyuk is going to replace Goodwin so there's further cap savings. It is clear now that the 49ers don't value a CB as much with all the rule changes and instead believe the only way to succeed in the new NFL is to get after the QB. Another place they could look at the back end of this draft is another RB in the hopes of going cheaper there as well. I would say C/G, TE, and RB will be the remaining picks. And I guess Goodwin and Breida are worthless on the trade market.

Originally posted by stefano89:
For this year anything more than a 6th or 7th rounder ya it does. What is it the 6th rd now? We don't need more 2021 picks we need more 2020 picks. Our window is open now. This is only viable if their plan is to make a run in 2021 and not 2020 which I'm suspecting more an more.

Last I checked, 1. our roster is super deep, so not many rooks will make the roster, and 2. 6th and 7th rd picks can contribute just as well as day 1 or 2, or rd 4-5 players can, so don't act like you need high picks every years to be good.