Sean Gentile

They draft someone in the middle of the round, and you're back with Sir Howard in the rookies.

Like, I think that is a wholly likely scenario that could absolutely happen.

Rudolph's going to have to battle for his spot.

And so that's one thing to think about.

You know, it's not like he's a roster loss.

And so what I think that they're kind of hitting at here is,

If you can develop two guys and you like two guys in there, maybe one of them hits, maybe neither of them do.

But we have 12 – you know, they have 12 draft picks.

And I think that's one thing that they talk a lot about this week is there are so many draft picks that they have that they can hit on so many different needs.

And quarterback's one of them.

I think that they feel like they would be remiss to not take a dark day on somebody with one of those picks.

And so that's kind of the philosophy is the quantity of picks you have, but also –

having more bites at the apple at that position gets you a likelihood, a higher likelihood of fixing that position or finding someone that maybe can slot in there.

So that's always something to think about.

You know, good teams, the 49ers did this a lot, you know, before Brock Purdy came along where they would just take guys late in the draft, the quarterback and Purdy hit.

It's happened sometimes.

And so I think that's a philosophy that they've kind of taken on.

That's why they would draft him.

Nick Farabaugh of PennLive joining us.

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