NFL Draft grades 2017: 49ers get mixed results on 3rd and final day

Source: www.ninersnation.com --- Sunday, April 30, 2017
I think John Lynch put together a good draft. Not everyone agrees after Day 3. The San Francisco 49ers had themselves a pretty good 2017 NFL Draft by most metrics. Even if you don’t like the picks themselves, rookie general manager John Lynch was very active and he’s established that he’s not the type of guy to wait around and let things happen around him. I like that a lot. On Day 1, the grades handed out for San Francisco’s moves were nearly universally positive. On Day 2, the individual grades were mixed, with many liking the selection of Akhello Witherspoon and many panning the early selection of C.J. Beathard. For full grades, Fooch put together a post on those outlets which ranked the overall draft class for the 49ers and other teams. But below, we’re going to take at the individual grades for Day 3 of the draft. If you need a refresher, these are the players the 49ers selected on Day 3 of the NFL Draft: 4 (15). Joe Williams, RB, Utah 5 (2). George Kittle, TE, Iowa 5 (34). Trent Taylor, WR, Louisiana Tech 6 (14). D.J. Jones , DT, Ole Miss 6 (18). Pita Taumoepenu, LB, Utah 7 (11). Adrian Colbert, CB, Miami We’ll start with the grades handed out by Spencer Hall of CBS Sports , and they aren’t pretty. Many loved the selection of Williams in the fourth round, but they gave the grade an ‘F’, saying that Williams was taken way too early due to the concerns about his commitment to football. Moving onto Round 5 , CBS Sports gives ...

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