The San Francisco 49ers are being penalized draft position in the fourth round of the 2024 NFL Draft and will forfeit a fifth-round pick in 2025 after the league discovered administrative payroll accounting errors that resulted in a misreporting of their cumulative player compensation, the league announced Monday.
The accounting errors in question were from the close of the 2022 league year.
“We take responsibility and accept the imposed discipline from the NFL due to a clerical payroll error,” the 49ers said in a statement. “At no time did we mislead or otherwise deceive the… Read More