San Francisco 49ers 2011 Draft: Find the Right Players To Fit the Scheme

March 21, 2011   ·   Ted Johnson   ·   Jump to comments

It was in the lunch line during the 1988 NFL Draft that General Manager John McVay of the San Francisco 49ers gave one of the more telling insights into what it takes to be successful in finding players who can make the transition from the college to pro ranks.
The first three rounds had gone by, and the Niners were doing their typical trade-down moves and understandably so. They were one of the best teams in the league and they constantly found themselves on the back end of the first round. They were bent on adding depth rather than finding one star.
After the third round the pace of the draft had slowed and Coach Bill Walsh, McVay and other team officials headed to the buffet line, where the local writers who covered the team happened to be. The team’s last pick had been in the third round and they used it on an undersized linebacker out of Boston College named Bill Romanowski.
What was the deciding factor in selecting Romanowski, who wasn’t all that high o...

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