The 49ers entered the 1986 draft with the No. 18 overall selection. They had one pick in each of the first four rounds and no selections in the fifth round.
Coach Bill Walsh and general manager John McVay traded down four times before adding a player.
At one point, then-owner Eddie DeBartolo called the 49ers’ draft room to express he was losing his patience.
“When are you going to pick somebody? Give me a name,” DeBartolo said. “My phone bills are going to be bigger than our signing bonuses.”
The 49ers eventually made six trades with six different teams and selected eight players who would become starters two years later on the 49ers’ Super Bowl XXIII champion team.