Why am I writing about these guys you ask? Simple--they were the players selected with the draft picks we gave up. For those who weren't around last year, the name is in reference to a certain poster who showed up after Kory Sheets was nabbed from the practice squad. His username was KORY SHEETS WAS OUR FUTURE (all caps his), and every post he made bemoaned the fate that was sure to fall the 49ers because of us letting Sheets go. (He also had a thing for Shaun Hill.)

There was a significant amount of debate over giving up a 5th for Ted Ginn, and even more for giving up a 4th to move up to grab Davis. 

Join me after the jump as I examine our draft trades and the players selected with those picks.

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Those of you around last year remember the Pink Panther Watch, where we looked at the Panther's season to see where we might end up picking. A week or so ago Fooch asked us which underdog player we liked most in Player X Is Our Future!

The reference is in regard to a poster who called himself KORY SHEETS WAS OUR FUTURE. After Kory Sheets was cut he came by asking why we let him go, claiming that Sheets was the future of the Niners and that the NFL was controlled by the Mafia. WHY DID WE LET KORY SHEETS GO. His posts were always entertaining and it became somewhat of an inside joke.

We made some draft trades that some folks liked and others hated. Some thought they were a waste and that we could have found valuable backups or starters for the 49ers with those picks, and as a result of that the idea was created to do a tracking of these players for the 2010 season and see what became of them. 

The first trade happened before the draft when we traded our 5th round pick to Miami for Ted Ginn Jr. Miami would use that pick to select Maryland CB Nolan Caroll. 

We would then trade our 4th round pick to Denver to move up to the 11th overall spot. They would end up trading that pick to New England who used it to grab TE Aaron Hernandez.

We also swapped 3rd round picks with the Chargers and we both ended up with linebackers. The Chargers selected Donald Butler out of the University of Washington and we got Navorro Bowman out of Penn State. I've gathered together some quick statistical information on these college players as well as a couple of highlight videos which I'll present after the jump. 

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