Mel Kiper’s 2024 NFL Draft Grades For The San Francisco 49ers

Given that Mel Kiper has been wrong way more than he’s been right over they years, his opinion means nothing to me

Top three greatest Mel Kiper takes: 3. "I'll retire if QB Jimmy Clausen Doesn't Become an NFL Star" ~ 2010 NFL Draft 2. "I have Andre Wadsworth No.1 Overall Player In 1998 (ahead of Peyton Manning) 1. "Why would you waste a 3rd Round pick on a sub-6 ft QB?" (Seattle taking Russell Wilson in 2012)

Not drafting a RT will be the 49ers downfall

"Who the hell is Mel Kiper anyway?" A quote that gets more and more relevant as time goes on.

Mel Kiper knows just as much about football as my mail-man😅😅😅😅

49ers hate to draft Tackles for some reason and its annoying.

Mel kiper opinion is irrelevant

Don’t need much, got who we wanted, left with our roster untouched - we re good

Ricky is perfect for our offense and team culture. He can block, he can catch. Most importantly play the run game and block. I think that is why he was the best WR considering he was not going to be available by our next pick.

Solid c+ due to good udfa pickups round 1 D

I’m happy to see my boi Kingston on my favorite team! Used to play with him in high school and we all knew he was going places figured it was only a matter of time till we saw him drafted

Keep up the great work! Always get my Niners news here first.

Rating...A. all in with the 49ers. . Go 49ers... much Love...

I don't take anything Mel says without a hefty dose of cynicism, but he wasn't off with the Round 1 need. There was a monster Tackle available in Patrick Paul.

B- is fair. 3rd and 4th Rnd picks were definitely the highlights, which is sad to say. But I LOVED Mustapha pre-draft and Puni wasn't on my radar, but his film looks great. I'd have love to have seen 9ers go DeJean (fits perfect in Cover 3) and then Roman Wilson or Troy Franklin (both fit Shanahan's scheme, yes, I know Franklin dropped due to needing to improve his routes and body) in the 2nd Rnd, if they wanted to do a DB/WR duo for the first 2 picks. I think OT woulda been tricky for the 1st round. But going DT with Newton at #31 I woulda loved. 9ers love their DL being 2-deep at each position to keep fresh pressure and they KINDA already are filled at DT. But I think Newton coulda easily beat out Givens and Elliot as the main non-starting DT. If I were to re-draft it myself, I'd take DB Cooper DeJean at #31 and OT Caedan Wallace at #64. MAYBE DT Jordan Jefferson or DeWayne Carter instead of Puni in the 3rd Rnd, and maybe Troy Franklin if I was forced to take a WR on Day 2 (Luke McCaffrey woulda been neat, too lol). But I like Puni and think 2 OL that early would be fine for the 9ers. They could get a DT in the 6th or 7th Rnds in my re-draft. The 4th round skill position players were cool, low investment, high reward types whose roles will likely increase in 2025. So my re-draft would look like this: CB Cooper DeJean OT Caedan Wallace OG Dominick Puni or DT Jordan Jefferson or DT DeWayne Carter or WR Troy Franklin S Malik Mustapha RB Isaac Guerendo WR Jacob Cowing OG Jarrett Kingston or DT Jonah Laulu or DT Levi Drake Rodriguez LB Tatum Bethune

B! Would have more Depth along the Offensive Line!

Watch.. all those teams with Draft Grade of A won't improve much because it's more than just the talents that you drafted. The coaching is important too.

Could've got one more offensive lineman but overall good draft

Draft a solid B simply bc 9ers not about the big name college guys... They always seem to hit on late round picks.. Hopefully the early picks will hit....

I’m a niners fan. I hated the picks from top to bottom. Felt like every pick was a reach.