Trent Williams<\/a> can\u2019t play forever. And Freeling probably needs some time to marinate in the NFL before taking over as a full-time starter. Seems like an ideal mentorship situation for San Francisco. Extremely long and athletic, Freeling boasts rare traits that could shoot him up the draft board in the coming months. But he made just 16 starts at Georgia and would benefit from filling out his frame before taking on the edge monsters in the NFL.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s a pick that we all know will need to be made at some point. In the first round? Well, yeah. I don\u2019t mind having someone sit for a position as important as left tackle, but if it\u2019s someone with 16 starts who may \u201chave\u201d to sit, that\u2019s where I\u2019m a bit cautious. This gives me Trey Lance vibes, and those aren\u2019t vibes I\u2019d want. Nothing wrong with a first round pick who has to marinate on the sidelines to learn the pro game, but the limited starts means they are caught in a catch-22 of needing to play more football, and the fact the whole idea is to not rush them.<\/p>\n
The big thing about Freeling that stands out to me\u2014and has been documented\u2014is his run blocking can be a bit inconsistent. That\u2019s something that can be rectified with coaching, however.<\/p>\n
I like Freeling, and I like the idea of him on the 49ers, and learning for a year. I don\u2019t like him being drafted in the first round with the idea that he\u2019d be replacing Trent Williams. I like Colton McKivitz, but if, in a year,, Freeling showed he could be the right tackle of the future,, that\u2019s when all of this would make me feel a bit better. Left tackle with limited starts, to replace one of the best who has ever played the position, he doesn\u2019t seem like the right fit for that.<\/p>\n
Then again, when is someone the right fit for that. Moreoever when is someone the right fit at where the 49ers are picking? Getting a player like described would require a top-10 pick. The 49ers don\u2019t have that, nor do I think many of us want to see them doing another blockbuster trade to obtain one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both offensive and defensive lines have some questions for the San Francisco 49ers. This latest mock draft from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769186,"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-769185","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\/116115002372702474","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769185","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=769185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}