2025 NFL Draft: Identifying 49ers’ best fits with Field Yates

49ers Talk with Matt Maiocco

NBC Sports Bay Area

Nfl, Football, Matt Maiocco, San Francisco 49ers, Sports

4.6 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Matt Maiocco sits down with ESPN NFL Draft Analyst Field Yates to breakdown which top prospects are good fits for the 49ers. Matt and Field discuss who will be available at No. 11, and how San Francisco can find value later in the draft to fill much-needed depth in the squad. Also, Matt and Jennifer Lee Chan detail Robert Saleh’s reunion on the sideline with Kyle Shanahan and Co. during the 49ers’ recent local Pro Day.

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0:00.0	We are closing in on the 2025 NFL draft, a draft in which the 49ers have a lot of picks and a lot of needs.
0:13.0	The 49ers hold the number 11 overall pick, and it's not so much who the 49ers want at number 11.
0:20.0	It's all about who will be the first 10 players selected.
0:23.6	On this episode of 49ers talk, we enlist the help of ESPN draft analyst field dates to try to sort out which players will likely be selected before the 49ers even go on the clock.
0:34.6	We'll also discuss which players at which positions of need are the best
0:40.0	fits for general manager John Lynch to add to the roster. Jennifer Lee Chan and I will also check
0:45.7	in on players of interest and how Robert Salah looked when he stepped back onto the 49ers
0:50.9	practice field in his return as defensive coordinator. We'll have all that and much more on this episode of 49ers talk coming at you right now.
0:59.9	Welcome to another episode of 49ers talk on NBC Sports Bay Area.com.
1:05.8	Introducing your hosts, Matt Mayoko and Jennifer Lee Chan.
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1:33.9	And Jennifer, I was not there in Santa Clara last week.
1:37.6	I had an assignment elsewhere, but you were there and you saw the return of Robert Sala. Robert Sala 2.0 with the 49ers out there
1:47.9	at the local pro day. Yeah, it probably was the biggest news of the entire day. Robert Sala strode
1:54.1	out of the field, huge smile in his face, you know, shook hands with everybody, gave us hugs as he
1:59.8	walked up, passed us to the field.
2:01.8	And he just looks like a happier, newer, lighter person since he's returned to the Bay Area.
2:08.0	I mean, I saw some clips of him, watched a few Jets games, not in their entirety, but a few Jets games
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