It’s hard to look at draft classes one or two years later since it takes roughly four years to see what happened with the picks. Six years later is when you really gauge it as a whole, but four years can indicate a lot as far as busts are concerned.
Which brings us to the 2014 draft. Over at SI.com, Andy Benoit recently ran grades of all 32 teams’ 2014 drafts and here’s what they had to say about the 49ers. They were somewhat neutral on the first pick of Jimmie Ward and called Carlos Hyde, “one of the league’s most underrated traditional runners.