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The 23 Wide Receivers the 49ers Drafted Between Terrell Owens and Deebo Samuel

WARNING: This list is disturbing.
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The 23 Wide Receivers the 49ers Drafted Between Terrell Owens and Deebo Samuel
The 23 Wide Receivers the 49ers Drafted Between Terrell Owens and Deebo Samuel

As the price to extend Deebo Samuel's contract continues to go up and up, don't you get the feeling there's at least one person in the 49ers organization fantasizing about trading him for a boatload of draft picks?

The 49ers probably could trade Samuel right now for a first round pick, a second round pick and probably more, and could use those picks on two wide receivers if they wanted to.

But before the 49ers convince themselves to make their biggest mistake since they traded DeForest Buckner, I'd like to remind them of their abysmal track record drafting wide receivers.

Here is every wide receiver the 49ers drafted between 1996, the year they took Terrell Owens in Round 3, and 2019, the year they took Samuel in Round 2.

WARNING: This list is disturbing.

  1. Ryan Thelwell (Round 7, 1998). Pro Bowls with the 49ers: 0.
  2. Tai Streets (Round 6, 1999). Pro Bowls with the 49ers: 0.
  3. Cedrick Wilson (Round 6, 2001). Pro Bowls with the 49ers: 0.
  4. Brandon Lloyd (Round 4, 2003). Pro Bowls with the 49ers: 0.
  5. Arnaz Battle (Round 6, 2003). Pro Bowls with the 49ers: 0.
  6. Rashaun Woods (Round 1, 2004). Pro Bowls with the 49ers: 0.
  7. Derrick Hamilton (Round 3, 2004). Pro Bowls with the 49ers: 0.
  8. Rasheed Marshall (Round 5, 2005). Pro Bowls with the 49ers: 0.
  9. Marcus Maxwell (Round 7, 2005). Pro Bowls with the 49ers: 0.
  10. Brandon Williams (Round 3, 2006). Pro Bowls with the 49ers: 0.
  11. Jason Hill (Round 3, 2007). Pro Bowls with the 49ers: 0.
  12. Josh Morgan (Round 6, 2008). Pro Bowls with the 49ers: 0.
  13. Michael Crabtree (Round 1, 2009). Pro Bowls with the 49ers: 0.
  14. Kyle Williams (Round 6, 2010). Pro Bowls with the 49ers: 0.
  15. Ronald Johnson (Round 6, 2011). Pro Bowls with the 49ers: 0.
  16. A.J. Jenkins (Round 1, 2012). Pro Bowls with the 49ers: 0.
  17. Quinton Patton (Round 4, 2013). Pro Bowls with the 49ers: 0.
  18. Bruce Ellington (Round 4, 2014). Pro Bowls with the 49ers: 0.
  19. DeAndre Smelter (Round 4, 2015). Pro Bowls with the 49ers: 0.
  20. Aaron Burbridge (Round 6, 2016). Pro Bowls with the 49ers: 0.
  21. Trent Taylor (Round 5, 2017). Pro Bowls with the 49ers: 0.
  22. Dante Pettis (Round 2, 2018). Pro Bowls with the 49ers: 0.
  23. Richie James Jr. (Round 7, 2018). Pro Bowls with the 49ers: 0.

Just pay the man his money and be happy that he's not Dante Pettis.

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Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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