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Report: The 49ers are "Very High" on Defensive End Oluwafemi Oladejo

It seems like the entire league is "very high" on Oladejo, not just the 49ers.
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Jan 29, 2025; Mobile, AL, USA; National team defensive lineman Oluwafemi Oladejo of UCLA (99) runs through a drill during Senior Bowl practice at Hancock Whitney Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Vasha Hunt-Imagn Images
Jan 29, 2025; Mobile, AL, USA; National team defensive lineman Oluwafemi Oladejo of UCLA (99) runs through a drill during Senior Bowl practice at Hancock Whitney Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Vasha Hunt-Imagn Images | Vasha Hunt-Imagn Images

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The NFL Draft is just three days away and we're starting to learn which players the 49ers like.

According to Sportskeeda's Tony Pauline, the 49ers love a particular defensive end who is projected to get drafted in Round 2.

"During the Senior Bowl, I mentioned that the San Francisco 49ers are very high on Oluwafemi Oladejo, and that remains true," Pauline wrote.

"In conversations last week, I was informed that Oladejo will end up being selected anywhere from pick 30 to 45. Besides the Niners, who hold pick 43, I'm told the Philadelphia Eagles with the last pick in Round 1, as well the Tennessee Titans and New England Patriots at the top of Round 2, are possibilities to pull the trigger on Oladejo."

It seems like the entire league is "very high" on Oladejo, not just the 49ers. So if they want to take an edge rusher with their second-round pick, he might be their selection if he's stil available. It sounds like he might be long gone.

Which means it seems like a longshot that the 49ers will draft Oladejo unless they trade up for him, and that seems unlikely. Trading down would seem more plausible.

In addition, there's no guarantee the 49ers will take an edge rusher before Round 3. Because they also desperately need a defensive tackle and an offensive tackle, and they can find starting defensive ends later on. For instance, they could take Central Arkansas' David Walker in Round 3. The 49ers seem very high on him as well.

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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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