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NFL Mock Draft: Elite Left Tackle Prospect Falls to 49ers in Round 1

Check out this domino effect.
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Mar 1, 2025; Indianapolis, IN, USA; University of Missouri offensive lineman Armand Membou (OL28) answers questions at a press conference during the 2025 NFL Combine at Indiana Convention Center. Mandatory Credit: Jacob Musselman-Imagn Images
Mar 1, 2025; Indianapolis, IN, USA; University of Missouri offensive lineman Armand Membou (OL28) answers questions at a press conference during the 2025 NFL Combine at Indiana Convention Center. Mandatory Credit: Jacob Musselman-Imagn Images | Jacob Musselman-Imagn Images

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Check out this domino effect.

A few days ago, news broke that Saints quarterback Derek Carr has a serious shoulder injury and could miss all of 2025. Suddenly, the Saints need a quarterback. And in Pro Football Focus' latest mock draft, the Saints are projected to take Ole Miss quarterback Jaxson Dart with the ninth pick.

Which means three quarterbacks are now projected to get taken in the top 10: Cam Ward, Shedeur Sanders and Dart. And that's great news for the 49ers. Because that means a great player is going to drop to them.

And if PFF's latest mock draft, that great player is Missouri offensive tackle Armand Membou.

"The 49ers haven't drafted an offensive tackle in the first round since 2018," writes PFF analyst Jordan Plocher. "Trent Williams will be back in 2025, but he will be 37 years old and in his 15th season. Membou would give the 49ers an athletic tackle who fits what they want to do schematically.

"Membou earned an 80.7 PFF run-blocking grade in 2024 on outside zone runs, a concept the 49ers deployed on 50% of their run plays."

This would be the best possible pick for the 49ers. They desperately need an offensive tackle and Membou is the best one in this year's draft.

In addition, it's not so clear that Williams will be back in 2025. John Lynch said he would be, but Williams hasn't spoken publicly or posted on social media since October, so we'll see.

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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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