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49ers draft pick Charlie Woerner's phone broke before John Lynch call

There's no day where having a working cell phone is more important for a potential NFL draft pick than the weekend of the NFL draft.

That first call from a coach and general manager of an NFL team is the moment young football players dream of their whole lives.

For 49ers' sixth-round pick Charlie Woerner, that initial conversation got off to a rocky start.

"I was just sitting there, and funny story, my phone broke," Woerner said to KNBR on Thursday. "Like, my audio went out on my phone. The 49ers called me, and I couldn't answer it on my phone, so I called them back on my fiancé's phone.