The race to be first to report the San Francisco 49ers’ first-round draft pick left some people with egg on their faces.
While it’s not exactly clear what started the domino effect, someone, somewhere, clearly got information Thursday that the Niners had decided to take Iowa cornerback Cooper DeJean with the 31st pick. Aggregators quickly seized on that information and disseminated it as fact.
Except it wasn’t: The Niners selected Florida receiver Ricky Pearsall, much to the chagrin of many fans.
For the most part, these mistakes have been cleaned up and deleted, but there is evidence lying around that something went wrong.