A terrible trade? Yes. But the 49ers aren't playing with scared money. And they're still a Super Bowl contender.
The 49ers have been able to overcome the miss on Lance by building a strong roster and hitting on Purdy, a quarterback from Iowa State who was selected with the final pick of last year’s draft. He got a chance to play over the second half of the season after injuries to Lance andSome like to say the 49ers had no idea Purdy would be as good as he was last season. Blind luck, they say. The team would have selected him earlier if it believed he would perform as well as he did, they say.
I’ll accept that if someone can tell me the point at which personnel people stop getting credit for draft picks. Is it after the first round? The second round? The third? Fourth? Fifth? Sixth? We all know that multiple factors go into where and when a player is drafted. Some of it is strategic. If teams believe they can get a player later because their intel indicates other clubs are not high on the guy, they tend to wait. I’m not saying that’s what happened with Purdy, but I am saying San Francisco was the only team that used a draft pick on him rather than compete with others to acquire him as an unsigned rookie.
The draft is — and always has been — a roll of the dice. When personnel people say it’s 50-50 whether most picks will work out, it speaks to the inexact science involved. It’s why I give teams as much credit for hitting on late picks as I do for making successful selections at the top of the draft. Sure, there are processes that can enhance or harm your success rate, but I’d rather talk about results than processes.
San Francisco has been one of the league’s best teams over the past four years, even after the Lance trade, and it should be a leading contender to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl this season. The 49ers have been proactive and unwilling to settle — witness the signing of free-agent defensive tackle
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