2025 draft could be a referendum on 49ers’ 2024 selection

Since Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch took charge of the 49ers, there has been one draft in which they have not selected a wide receiver.

The 2021 draft is the only draft in the Shanahan-Lynch era that has seem them eschew the chance to take a wideout, their commitment to adding at the position perhaps reflective of a head coach who spent his college career as a wideout at Texas.

While there have been misses, Shanahan has had a good eye for the position in which he operated for the Longhorns, finding stars in the form of Deebo Samuel and Brandon Aiyuk, while there were very positive signs from first-round pick Ricky Pearsall down the stretch last season.

Yet with Samuel traded to the Washington…