The San Francisco 49ers didn’t have a single pick in the 2023 NFL draft until the end of the third round on Friday night. They paid back their patient fans by using their first pick on a kicker, Michigan’s Jake Moody.
It didn’t go over well. Taking a kicker in the third round is generally frowned upon. Doing so with the first pick the team makes in a draft? That’s cause for ridicule. And 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan admitted he took some serious grief.
