Drake Jackson-DE-USC, 2nd Round 2022 Draft

Originally posted by eastie:
When you have one of the strongest rosters in the league, it's damn hard for a later round rookie to make the team, let alone, become a 'long term' starter. Flash back to 2016. How many of these draft choices would have made that roster?

I get that. This team was absolutely stacked at edge, offensive line and cornerback no wonder guys couldn't make it.

Originally posted by eastie:
When you have one of the strongest rosters in the league, it's damn hard for a later round rookie to make the team, let alone, become a 'long term' starter. Flash back to 2016. How many of these draft choices would have made that roster?

That is true for positions of strength, but not for positions where depth is needed.

Who was competing with Drake for 2nd DE spot last year ? Clelin Ferrell. Ferrell was better than Drake. Is it really that hard to get an upgrade from Ferrell ?
They ended up trading for two EDGE guys mid season just to plug that hole.

Who was competing with Cam Latu last year in terms of TE2 ? Dwelley ? Yet the guy is in danger of getting cut without logging a single snap.

Yes, there will be misses. But misses when you have limited draft capital and desperately need to some young, cheap guys when you're cap-strapped, really hurt. Like, really really hurt.

And some of these misses arent really "this guy isnt good enough to be a starter on this stacked team". Some of these are "we cannot even make this guy a third stringer because if he needs to get into a game we're effed".

I feel bad for the guy. He looked promising but now will have a lost season on IR. Hopefully it is not a chronic condition that affects his recovery.

He's done. Another miss.

Drake Jackson never showed anything on the field to be excited about. The Niners swung on traits and whiffed. Time to cut the loss and move on from Eli Harold's clone.

Only thing he ever did that was productive is get his hands up to tip several passes

Originally posted by frenchmov:
Only thing he ever did that was productive is get his hands up to tip several passes

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Useless!

Originally posted by captveg:

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:
When the best thing you can say for a guy is "well he hasn't been cut yet", that's not a ringing endorsement. Other than Purdy, not a single guy taken looks like a long term starter for this team, continuing an unfortunate trend of them whiffing on way too many picks.

On the other hand, 2023 draft seems like a fairly solid group after one year. We'll see where it goes.

Very fortunate for us. Not including Purdy, the 2022 draft looks awful.

I still have hopes for Davis and Zakelj as depth guys. Womack seems to have disappeared. But the class doesn't look good. The staff seems much higher on the 2023 group. We need the 2023 and 2024 guys to step.up and replace some guys eventually. A roster can age quick and we are certainly there.

Originally posted by Heroism:
Drake Jackson never showed anything on the field to be excited about. The Niners swung on traits and whiffed. Time to cut the loss and move on from Eli Harold's clone.

Eli Harold. That's a name from years past. Gosh was that Nolan years ago

Originally posted by bors:

Originally posted by Heroism:
Drake Jackson never showed anything on the field to be excited about. The Niners swung on traits and whiffed. Time to cut the loss and move on from Eli Harold's clone.

Eli Harold. That's a name from years past. Gosh was that Nolan years ago

I think he was JH/Baalke

Wow, ShanaLynch whiffed again on a high round pick. That's so unusual and surprising.

But don't despair, we still have the best roster never to win anything.

Originally posted by Koldo:
Wow, ShanaLynch whiffed again on a high round pick. That's so unusual and surprising.

But don't despair, we still have the best roster never to win anything.

#1 fan

Originally posted by Hoovtrain:

Originally posted by Koldo:
Wow, ShanaLynch whiffed again on a high round pick. That's so unusual and surprising.

But don't despair, we still have the best roster never to win anything.

#1 fan

Keep drinking the Kool-Aid.

Originally posted by Koldo:

Originally posted by Hoovtrain:

Originally posted by Koldo:
Wow, ShanaLynch whiffed again on a high round pick. That's so unusual and surprising.

But don't despair, we still have the best roster never to win anything.

#1 fan

Keep drinking the Kool-Aid.

What koolaid? That kinda statement come from an opposing fan

you rather not a have one of the best rosters..? It just doesn't make sense