The 49ers have ways of getting into Round 2 or 3. They could, for example, trade a veteran player like Solomon Thomas. (Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press)
NFL teams will barrel through Rounds 2 and 3 of the draft tonight. If the commissioner had prohibited trades over these three quarantined days, Kyle Shanahan could play video games with his kids this evening, and John Lynch could do 4,000 push-ups in his home gym.
The 49ers currently have no picks in the second round, and no picks in the third round, as you know. (They also have none in the fourth, but that’s a story for tomorrow.) The head coach and the general manager put themselves in this position through previous trades, and both have been emphatic that they don’t regret the decisions. They shouldn’t. Dee Ford and Emmanuel Sanders, the bounty from those mid-round picks, helped them reach the Super Bowl.
Just the same, you can be 100-percent sure that Shanalynch are in a wretched state of FOMO right now: fear of missing out on an exciting night of roster building.
Can the 49ers find a way to get into the second or third round? Here are some options.
OPTION 1: TRADE A VETERAN PLAYER
There has been talk all week (and before) about the 49ers’ shipping out one of their many running backs, or (spurred by a Michael Lombardi report Monday) perhaps a defensive player. But realistically, how many of those guys could net a No. 2 or
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