{"id":753224,"date":"2026-02-15T05:24:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T05:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/753224\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T05:24:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T05:24:28","slug":"49ers-mock-draft-2026-miami-akheem-mesidor-in-the-athletics-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/753224\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers Mock Draft 2026: Miami Akheem Mesidor in The Athletic\u2019s latest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">No, Miami defensive end Rueben Bain won\u2019t be available at pick No. 27. But his bookend on the Hurricanes\u2019 defensive line could be. Mesidor was nearly as destructive as Bain in 2025, finishing with 12.5 sacks and four forced fumbles. According to Pro Football Focus, he had a pass-rush win rate of 21.2 percent. To put that in perspective, Bain\u2019s was 22.9 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">So how does a guy with numbers like that slip to No. 27? Mesidor might not have elite length \u2014 his height and arm length will be scrutinized at the upcoming NFL Scouting Combine \u2014 and he\u2019ll also turn 25 three weeks before the draft. That means he\u2019s more than three years older than the 49ers\u2019 first-round pick last year, Mykel Williams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No, Miami defensive end Rueben Bain won\u2019t be available at pick No. 27. But his bookend on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,7,6,1161,252,104509,1138,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-753224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","13":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-mock-drafts","14":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-draft","15":"tag-sanfrancisco","16":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116072983139353508","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}