Warpath Mock Draft - Start Time 3/15, 8am

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

so you recognize that safeties generally get paid less than pretty much every other position.... because its a far less valuable position to a team. that said, regardless of a players position, a player drafted in the first round generallys makes close to than the player drafted at the same position the year before.

i don't mean to be overly hard on you - its just the only trade we've had so far and it involves the redskins and doesnt make much sense from the perspective of the 49ers. kinda broke the realism of what we were going for, atleast for me. Now, if Al Davis were owner of the 49ers, it would be another matter entirely. i'd be applauding your skills at impersonating the madman.

On that note, GTripp made far too sensible of a pick to accurately portray what the Raiders would do. If I had been Oakland, I would have drafted Tebow with that pick, LOL.

No, don't worry. I specifically took a player who needs strong organizational structure to reach his max potential, and placed him in an organization that is a complete circus. No realism dropoff.

Anyway, I'm on your side in terms of the San Francisco-Washington trade being preposterously unrealistic. A quick Google search would show that SF local media sources have watch an offensive line perform every bit as poorly as ours has, and so the only reason to go up that high would be to land Okung, who was there, but passed on. Furthermore, Eric Berry isn't really a top five pick with the lone exception of if the Redskins surprise and take him. He could go 6-10, but I wouldn't be shocked if he's around when SF makes their first pick at 13 (and then he'll probably get further than that). Either way, the 49ers aren't going to trade up.

Still, we allowed trades in this dealy, and it's supposed to be for fun. Having two picks for the Redskins is more fun than one pick, and the mock is still valuable if you use it as a tool to see how the market is valuing certain positions against others (all OTs in the top 50 on anyones big board are gone pick pick 20, both QBs go in top 10), but not so much to worry about specific players.