The San Francisco 49ers head into the 2017 NFL draft with a new head coach and a new general manager. John Lynch’s personnel experience is limited to some defensive back work for John Elway, and his television analysis. Kyle Shanahan has history as an assistant coach to give us some ideas of what he might like in terms of personnel, but even that is limited since he has not been in charge.
All of that leads us to Mike Mayock’s comments on Friday. The NFL Network analyst had a conference call, and he was asked what kind of players he could see Shanahan and the 49ers looking at in the upcoming draft.