{"id":46730,"date":"2025-04-05T01:21:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T01:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=46730"},"modified":"2025-04-05T01:21:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T01:21:45","slug":"latest-pff-mock-draft-has-49ers-making-questionable-trade-up-for-o-lineman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=46730","title":{"rendered":"Latest PFF mock draft has 49ers making questionable trade-up for O-lineman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\"><em><strong>Trading down might be more appealing to the 49ers in the 2025 NFL Draft, but Pro Football Focus thinks a trade-up is in order.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\">San Francisco 49ers general manager John Lynch is no stranger to draft-day trades, and with a current crop of 11 picks in the 2025 NFL Draft, the ability to move around the board later this April is certainly on the table.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\">However, in light of the Niners&#8217; exodus of talent this offseason, stockpiling more picks via trade-downs sure seems like the more plausible alternative. After all, obtaining more proverbial &#8220;darts&#8221; to toss at the big board with the intent on hitting on more mid-round talent seems like a smart move.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\">That said, Pro Football Focus&#8217; Dalton Wasserman feels as if San Francisco bucks this convention, opting to trade up from No. 11 overall to land a player it truly loves.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\">Interesting.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"inline-text-5\">49ers trade up to land Armand Membou in Pro Football Focus&#8217; latest mock draft<\/h2>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\">The 49ers need plenty of defensive line help this offseason, but Wasserman&#8217;s latest Round 1 mock draft suggests the Niners table that need in favor of long-term help for the offensive line.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\">Wasserman&#8217;s projected target is Missouri offensive tackle Armand Membou, who has shown up on a few different mocks for the Niners in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\">As for the trade to land Membou, San Francisco sends off pick Nos. 11 and 100 overall to the Carolina Panthers to leap to No. 8 overall, bypassing the New Orleans Saints, whom Wasserman likely felt were honing in on Membou:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The 49ers move up three spots to get ahead of New Orleans and take Membou. He\u2019s a perfect scheme fit for Kyle Shanahan\u2019s offense. Membou played the ninth-most outside-zone run snaps at Missouri in 2024 while posting an excellent 80.7 PFF run-blocking grade. He joins Dominick Puni to form a potentially dominant right side of San Francisco\u2019s offensive line.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\">Regarding the need, it&#8217;s hard to argue. There aren&#8217;t quite as many offensive tackles in this year&#8217;s draft, while the depth of D-linemen allow the 49ers to find talent in the later rounds. And despite the Niners having their starting O-line penciled in for 2025, with Trent Williams and Colton McKivitz as the bookends, grabbing a long-term Williams replacement and a possible day-one upgrade over McKivitz isn&#8217;t the worst idea ever.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\">The trade-up, however, is a little strange.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-12\">Sure, San Francisco dished out only a late third-round pick to make the deal work. But, considering the strength of this year&#8217;s class is generally seen from the middle of Round 1 through the early stages of Round 4, losing out on yet another pick there seems detrimental, particularly when accounting for the 49ers&#8217; many needs.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-13\">Of course, should such a trade and selection happen, and Membou becomes a Williams-like clone, no one would fault the deal.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"inline-text-14\">Read more from Niner Noise<\/h3>\n<figure><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trading down might be more appealing to the 49ers in the 2025 NFL Draft, but Pro Football Focus thinks a trade-up is in order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":46732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - 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