The 49ers’ payout from the Trey Lance trade will come to an end in the 2023 draft. Their first-round pick next year belongs to the Dolphins, so we can’t learn much about San Francisco from early mock drafts. However, we can glean a little bit from where the 49ers’ pick lands in those mocks, and a recent ESPN projection shows a potential disaster season for them.
In an ESPN 2023 mock, the Dolphins hold the 49ers’ selection at No. 13 overall. Picking in the top half of the draft means a lot of things went wrong for San Francisco in the 2022 campaign.
