The 49ers’ time away from Round 1 of the NFL draft is scheduled to end next year. They’ve been out of the first round in the last two drafts after dealing their 2022 and 2023 first-round choices to Miami in the trade up to No. 3 in the 2021 draft.
Their return to the first round means a return to standard mock drafts. The last couple years the 49ers’ participation in a projection required the mock to go into the second or third round. We can welcome San Francisco back to the Round 1 mock fold with USA TODAY’s way-too-early edition of a 2024 mock.
