NFL Mock Draft 2012: Do 49ers Go WR First Round Or Free Agency?

We need more than one person to help the WR corps. Sign Jackson or Colston, and draft someone to plug in on the other side…put Crabs in the slot…Morgan and Williams can both sub in and be productive. All of a sudden we’re a legit WR threat.

Doesn’t matter if we sign Bowe, Jackson, Colston, or anyone at all. Jeffrey is a freak athlete and would have to be drafted then. That being said, I highly doubt he will be there at 30. Sanu will be a good fit, big receiver, great hands, but I doubt he drops that low. We will probably need to move up a bit, but it could definitely pay off for either Jeffrey or Sanu.

None. This group of receivers are a show me the money group. At least the Jacksons are. Bowe may want to come here, but I doubt he takes a discount to play with Alex. My vote is the draft, we need a combination of size and speed. It’s in the sig!

Do not want manningham, is oft injured and not a starter.

But we lack a number 1 guy. we have a great 2 3 4 guy in Crab Morgan and Williams (Williams at WR.. Ginn at KR). The only great number 1s I see out there are Bowe and Jackson. If we cant get them I say go for the draft with Alshon/Sanu/and the Baylor guy… in that order.

I’d love Bowe, an under the radar FA like Eddie Royal and a first or 2nd round draft pick. Team them up with Crabs and Morgan and our receiving crew all of a sudden would look pretty decent. not sure all that’s in the budget, but it’d go far to help us solve our woes and give us depth at the same time.

Resign Ginn, get Morgan healthy, get Crabtree some solid off season reps, develop Williams and sign a quality FA in Colston or Bowe. This would free up the draft for CB, FS, OLB, RB depth and more!

Saw him dominate against Army this year at Yankee stadium.

Me: God I wish we had a 1000 yard receiver
Myself: Me too but you do realize how many passing yards Alex Smith threw for this year right?
Me: Ya around 3000 right?
Myself: 3144 yards to be exact.
Me: So what? Crabtree is still a bust for not hitting 1000 yards.
Myself: So you want Crabtree to have about 32% of the teams passing yards?
Me: Well ya it can’t be that hard?
Myself: You do realize that #1 WRs have around 27-30% of the teams receiving yards. Except for Fitzgerald who has around 36% because Kolb and Skeleton only know how to throw it to him.
Me: Oh what is Crabtree’s? I bet its like 15%
Myself: Its around 28%
Me: Oh so you are telling me that the Crabtree’s low (874 yards) is based on scheme? And that if we add a new WR he will probably produce the same amount as Crabtree and will be considered a bust too?
Myself: Now you (I?) got it. Also we have a TE named Vernon Davis who Alex likes to throw to and add in the fact that according to yahoo Crabtree only played 15 games.

True Story

The 49ers need to draft TE Coby Fleener. In their offense he instantly becomes their #2 or #3 top target. Trust the scouts to find two young serviceable WRs in the mid and late rounds. Let all the UDFA know that roster spots are available at WR in SF.

Run the TE mismatch offense with a QB who only excels at getting the ball to the TEs. Let the coaching staff try to figure out some usable plays on the outside with a group of young, unknown receivers.

Don’t need ‘em. Don’t want ‘em. We need us a second, third round style. The kind that knows coming in they aren’t getting a thousand yards. I could give two turds about ginn. sign me 3 people who returned kicks in college and make them rotate all damn year.

get some depth in the defensive back field, find a person with the last name smith to line up opposite Aldon. and I"m good.

then WOW…

Sign Bowe or Colston, plus Lavelle Hawkins. Focus on secondary and offensive line depth in the draft.

I’ll be disappointed if we do. They always disappoint and wouldn’t fit in with our blue collar work ethic.

Maybe we can get lucky in the draft, but by the end of the first we’re already in the second tier of prospects. That tier should last well into the third, no reason to get impatient.

Go for both, to avoid picking a bust in F.A. and DRAFT is untested Stock. Thats why we should have gone with T.O. in play offs, ’cos his truly tried and tested. The AURO around him sends shockwaves to any defense, our WR Unit was just Shut Down against Giants we were lucky that Alex Smith and Vernon Davis were in the zone.

WR is third on the priority list at best. Even when we beat the crap out of Breezy he threw for 490 on us. Smith was sacked more than any other QB in the league. How much better would crabtree be if his QB wasn’t sacked 10% of the time he dropped back to pass?

We have young good WR’s that just need a vet leader or an experianced #1… not a rookie.

The offensive woe’s drastically get reduced if smith is upright and the running game is productive. D first cause that is our thing, then OL. Always and forever.

but I really meant “either”. They need a real #1 wide out. Not sure why they thought Braylon Edwards was that guy in the first place – he was basically a no. 2 talent.

So I think they should get the “best WR available” – be that in the draft or free agency. Obviously, with a salary cap they should not spend TOO much on a WR, so I guess that’s “available”.

I don’t necessarily think they will both sign a top FA WR and draft a 1st round WR, but I see both as valid options that I expect them to investigate fully.

Ideally I would like to see them bring in one of the top FA WRs so that they get a proven guy and we can still add talent at another position in the 1st round, but it won’t be easy. There are a lot of guys they need to get re-signed in FA, including Morgan who all the coaches love. Tons of agents to contact, tons of negotiations going on at once, and probably a lot of bonus money getting tossed around.

You’d have to figure they will still try to kick the tires on FA WRs though. If they strike out there and only are able to re-sign Morgan, then it definitely becomes something they will have to look hard at in the draft.