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It doesn't just happen to the Cowboys. That "draft pick doesn't work out" disease. It bites all teams. The draft is an inexact science. This is an example of it happening to another team.
This article is just to point out that 31 teams aren't making all the right moves and the Cowboys aren't the only team who can't get out of their own way sometimes.
Here's the 49ers getting ready to move on from their 2nd round pick (and others) in the 2022 draft. Just two years ago!
One of the reasons that the 49ers spent last year on the hunt for a bookend defensive lineman to play in the spot opposite star Nick Bosa—a hunt that led to trades for Randy Gregory and Chase Young, which were short-term solutions—could be found in a guy who was supposed to have been a 2022 draft steal, Drake Jackson.
Jackson was a fringe first-round prospect who was at least expected to go in the Top 50 of that draft, but was plucked from USC by the 49ers with the next-to-last pick of the second round. After playing 15 games and 33% of the team’s snaps as a rookie, he got off to a stellar start to 2023, with three sacks in the first game against the Steelers.
After that? Crickets. Jackson registered four tackles the rest of the way and, battling injuries and ineffectiveness, lost his job and did not play after Week 8.
With that in mind, as San Francisco Chronicle beat writer Eric Branch laid out the contours of the 49ers’ 2024 53-man roster, he projected Jackson getting cut by the team altogether, beaten out by undrafted free agent Evan Anderson.
“Jackson, their 2022 second-rounder was drafted to serve as Bosa’s bookend. But his lack of development prompted their trades for pass rushers Randy Gregory and Chase Young in October before they signed (Leonard) Floyd in March,” Branch wrote this week.
Much more good stuff: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nf...r&cvid=efa2cf6a56754051b8fb69331dfbd37c&ei=17
***Check out this tidbit at the bottom of the story:
As for other interesting cuts forecast by Branch, he sees the team cutting ties with some other prominent recent picks. Spencer Burford, the 2022 fourth-rounder, would get the axe after failing to win a starting job on the offensive line, as would 2022 oft-injured third-round receiver Danny Gray.
Also on the Chronicle’s hypothetical chopping block is another third-rounder, cornerback Ambry Thomas, who was picked in 2021.
This article is just to point out that 31 teams aren't making all the right moves and the Cowboys aren't the only team who can't get out of their own way sometimes.
Here's the 49ers getting ready to move on from their 2nd round pick (and others) in the 2022 draft. Just two years ago!
49ers Predicted to Cut Ties with Demoted Second-Round ‘Bust’
Story by Sean DeveneyOne of the reasons that the 49ers spent last year on the hunt for a bookend defensive lineman to play in the spot opposite star Nick Bosa—a hunt that led to trades for Randy Gregory and Chase Young, which were short-term solutions—could be found in a guy who was supposed to have been a 2022 draft steal, Drake Jackson.
Jackson was a fringe first-round prospect who was at least expected to go in the Top 50 of that draft, but was plucked from USC by the 49ers with the next-to-last pick of the second round. After playing 15 games and 33% of the team’s snaps as a rookie, he got off to a stellar start to 2023, with three sacks in the first game against the Steelers.
After that? Crickets. Jackson registered four tackles the rest of the way and, battling injuries and ineffectiveness, lost his job and did not play after Week 8.
With that in mind, as San Francisco Chronicle beat writer Eric Branch laid out the contours of the 49ers’ 2024 53-man roster, he projected Jackson getting cut by the team altogether, beaten out by undrafted free agent Evan Anderson.
“Jackson, their 2022 second-rounder was drafted to serve as Bosa’s bookend. But his lack of development prompted their trades for pass rushers Randy Gregory and Chase Young in October before they signed (Leonard) Floyd in March,” Branch wrote this week.
Much more good stuff: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nf...r&cvid=efa2cf6a56754051b8fb69331dfbd37c&ei=17
***Check out this tidbit at the bottom of the story:
As for other interesting cuts forecast by Branch, he sees the team cutting ties with some other prominent recent picks. Spencer Burford, the 2022 fourth-rounder, would get the axe after failing to win a starting job on the offensive line, as would 2022 oft-injured third-round receiver Danny Gray.
Also on the Chronicle’s hypothetical chopping block is another third-rounder, cornerback Ambry Thomas, who was picked in 2021.
