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49ers trade down scenarios: QB climbers

The great and awful thing about pre-draft speculation is that almost literally, anything is possible. Today, let’s consider one specific scenario for the San Francisco 49ers: trading the No. 2 pick to a quarterback-hungry team.

Let’s start with a couple of assumptions. First, the smallest drop is the best. It will be hard to ever top the Mitchell Trubisky trade, where the Niners got two 3rd round picks and a 4th just to drop one position in the draft, so that Chicago could draft a guy SF didn’t want anyway. But that’s the goal.

Second, let’s assume that Arizona does not take a QB with the first pick.