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49ers Select Massive Offensive Tackle in Way-Too-Early 2026 Mock Draft

The 49ers haven't drafted an offensive tackle since 2021.
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The 49ers haven't drafted an offensive tackle since 2021.

That player was Jaylon Moore. He recently signed with the Kansas City Chiefs. Now, the 49ers' offensive tackles are Colton McKivitz, who will be a free agent next year, and Trent Williams, who will be 38 next year. Oh, they also signed veterans D.J. Humphries, Andre Dillard and Nicholas Petit-Frere to one-year deals.

That's why Sports Illustrated projects the 49ers to take Oregon offensive tackle Isaiah World in their way-too-early 2026 NFL mock draft.

"The 49ers need to find an eventual successor—or, in 2026, immediate replacement—for left tackle Trent Williams, and World fits the bill," writes SI's Daniel Flick. "After a pair of All-Mountain West honorable mention campaigns, World transferred to Oregon this spring. The 6' 8", 309-pounder is big and powerful, has experience at both left and right tackle and he allowed just one sack and two quarterback hits last season, according to Pro Football Focus."

It's interesting that Sports Illustrated projects the 49ers to have the 27th pick -- that would they would win at least one playoff game. I'm not so sure the 49ers will be so successful next season particularly if they have to start five or six rookies on defense. It seems they'll be Super Bowl contenders in 2026 if everything goes according to plan in 2025.

I also find it interesting that the 49ers will find an heir apparent to Trent Williams at the end of Round 1. Good left tackles usually get picked top 10.

This mock draft seems unrealistic.

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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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