This was a good draft on paper overall. A good defense can add valuable time of possession or create turnovers for your offense. Between the additions they made and the investments they made in free agency I am not upset about how this draft unfolded.

There's a reason why a record number of WR's went early in this year's draft between the first two rounds and why a good number of players on offense that we all coveted ultimately ended up falling multiple rounds. It was not a good year on offense class wise.

I think the most overlooked and understated aspect of this off season though has been the fact that Pederson runs an RPO and Lawrence was comfortable and excelled within a RPO system at Clemson. He should be able to showcase his ability and his football IQ more this year. I also trust Pederson as a play caller a whole hell of a lot more than anybody this team has had over the past decade.

Baalke went with value early. I am not going to bash him for that. He signed Christian Kirk, Zay Jones, Evan Ingram & Brandon Scherff on offense this year and he already invested a pick/player via trade in Dan Arnold last year and an additional first round selection was made for Etienne. Arnold was actually making some decent progress despite being gained a month into the season. Walker Little was also a 2nd RD pick last year.

I think Fortner and Conner will add a lot of value to the team this year when it's all said and done. We needed a Center with Linder's retirement. We needed a power runner in the backfield and an insurance policy with Robinson and Etienne still on the mend and shaking the rust off. You got that with Conner. Hit the end zone a lot in spite of limited touches in his career.

Everyone wanted a WR. They got one for free essentially yesterday with Kevin Austin and there's still a chance to keep churning the UDFA market or even trade for or sign another veteran. What's funny to me is that, the guy that NEVER drafted a quality WR during his tenure in San Francisco, the guy that got made fun of on here because of his inability to find a quality receiver? Is now getting blasted for not drafting one. It's hilarious. He didn't reach. He didn't take anybody coming off an ACL this year.

He went out and got smart, fast & physical football players on defense that we desperately needed. Tough crowd on here.

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