The NFL announced on Wednesday the compensatory draft choices, which finalized the 49ers’ available selections for this year’s draft.
While there was a bit of confusion about how many measure choices the 49ers received, they ended up with the two expected, giving them 10 at the start of the new league year.
This is a far cry from the limited capital that San Francisco was equipped with last year, when they ended up with just five players in the seven-round draft. The 10 selections will give them the opportunity to add a series of cost-effective players to help rebuild their roster or give them a chance to move up and down the board on Draft Day.
Here is the updated list of 49ers picks:
Round 1, choose 12
Round 2, choose 43
Round 3, choose 102 (compensatory)
Round 4, choose 117
Round 5, choose 155
Round 5, choose 172 (via New Orleans)
Round 5, choose 180 (compensatory)
Round 6, choose 193
Round 7, choose 229 (via New York Jets)
Round 7, choose 239
One thing that stands out beyond the number of choices is where those choices are. The 49ers have four choices in the top 150, but only two in the top 100, after switching their third-round selection to Washington last year in exchange for Trent Williams.
With a loaded back-end of the draft, don’t be surprised if San Francisco uses some of these selections to go up a few times and add more premium talent. This assuming they end up taking all 10 options to the draft. With many rumors about possible negotiations, 49ers could end up with a different-looking war chest the moment the draft begins.