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Adam Schefter: 49ers Want to Trade Down in Round 1 of NFL Draft

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Aug 23, 2024; Paradise, Nevada, USA; San Francisco 49ers general manager John Lynch reacts during the game against the Las Vegas Raiders at Allegiant Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images
Aug 23, 2024; Paradise, Nevada, USA; San Francisco 49ers general manager John Lynch reacts during the game against the Las Vegas Raiders at Allegiant Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images | Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

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According to ESPN's Adam Schefter, the 49ers would like to trade down in Round 1 of the NFL Draft. Last week, there were reports that the 49ers had made phone calls to teams picking in the top 6 about potentially trading up. This report makes more sense.

The 49ers are rebuilding. They're not one player away from contending for a Super Bowl this year. And this draft doesn't have many generational blue-chip prospects. Abdul Carter might be the only one, and the 49ers probably won't be able to trade up for him. So trade down and get more picks.

According to Schefter, the 49ers aren't the only team looking to trade down in Round 1. The other teams are the Jaguars (pick no. 5), Panthers (8), Falcons (15), Seahawks (18), Buccaneers (19), Steelers (21) and Vikings (24). All of them would like to move down from their respective spots.

Unfortunately for the 49ers and those teams, only the Broncos seem interested in trading up. They currently have the 20th pick and have made calls to teams picking ahead of them about potentially moving up according to Schefter.

Denver should call the 49ers and offer them their first-round pick (20) and second-round pick (51) to the 49ers for the 11th pick. And the 49ers should accept that deal. Maybe they could get Denver to through in a sixth-rounder, too.

If the 49ers trade down with Denver, suddenly they would have five picks in the top 100. And the player they take with Denver's pick might be the same player they would take with the 11th pick, particularly if they're targeting Oregon's Derrick Harmon or Texas A&M's Shemar Stewart.

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Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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