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Grant Cohn's Final 49ers Mock Draft for 2021

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Grant Cohn's Final 49ers Mock Draft for 2021
Grant Cohn's Final 49ers Mock Draft for 2021

This is my best attempt to predict the picks and moves the 49ers will make in the upcoming draft.

Here goes nothing.

Round 1, Pick 3: Trey Lance, Quarterback, North Dakota State.

The 49ers reportedly are split between Lance and Mac Jones. But the 49ers can't take Jones because he lacks natural ability and comes with character concerns. He had a DUI, he's in a video that just surfaced in which he seems drunk at a bar and he has a beer belly. 

Drafting Jones with the No. 3 pick would be outrageously unpopular, a borderline scandal. So instead, the 49ers will take Lance, who has no character concerns, and has the potential to be great.

Round 2, Pick 43: Aaron Robinson, Cornerback, Central Florida.

A six-foot corner who can play outside and in the slot, which means he can be the 49ers' top backup corner as a rookie, then replace Jason Verrett in 2022.

Round 3, Pick 102: Trevon Grimes, Wide Receiver, Florida.

A six-foot-four receiver who runs a 4.5 40-yard dash. Grimes is big and fast and dominates in the red zone, which is why he scored 9 touchdowns in 2020. He can replace Kendrick Bourne's red-zone production.

Round 4, Pick 117: Jamar Johnson, Safety, Indiana.

A versatile safety who can replace Jimmie Ward or Jaquiski Tartt if either were to miss time with an injury.

TRADE: Picks 172 and 180 to the Packers for Pick 135

Round 4, Pick 135: Kendrick Green, Guard, Illinois.

An athletic interior lineman who fits the 49ers outside-zone run-blocking scheme.

Round 5, Pick 155: Jonathon Cooper, Defensive End, Ohio State.

A top-50 national recruit coming out of high school, Cooper never became a consistent starter at Ohio State but has lots of potential for a fifth-round edge rusher.

Round 6, Pick 194: Drew Dalman, Center, Stanford.

A local product who's the son of Chris Dalman, the 49ers starting center from 1996 to 1999. The 49ers originally drafted Chris Dalman in 1993 when Mike Shanahan was their offensive coordinator, so now Mike's son can draft Chris' son.

Round 7, Pick 230: Javian Hawkins, Running Back, Louisville.

A big-play running back who has potential as a receiver out of the backfield and is a perfect fit for the 49ers zone-blocking scheme.

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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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