The San Francisco 49ers have met with enough prospects during the draft cycle to field a football team on both sides of the ball. Determining which meetings and interviews are “real” is where you’ll drive yourself nuts. Sure, the team may have met with somebody at an All-Star game in January, but that could just be a regional scout collecting information.
So far, the team has had six top-30 visits, per CBS Sports. Four of them are wide receivers:
OT Travis Burke – Memphis WR Omar Cooper Jr. – Indiana
EDGE Romello Height – Texas Tech WR Denzel Boston – Washington WR Jordan Hudson – SMU WR KC Concepcion – Texas Tech
Looking at the consensus big board, Burke is projected to go undrafted. He is listed at 6’8 3/4″ and 325 pounds. Burke started at right tackle in 2025 for Memphis and on the left side the previous three seasons.
Let’s skip to Hudson, who is also projected to go undrafted. Hudson ran a 4.48 40 at the Mustang’s Pro Day earlier in the week. His most productive season was 2025, when Hudson had 63 receptions and 785 receiving yards. Before this season, Hudson had 69 receptions and 845 receiving yards combined in the previous two seasons.
Romello Height played on one of the best defenses in college football last year. He’s listed 82nd overall. He’s on the smaller side at 6’3″(32nd percentile) and 239 pounds(3rd percentile). Height also has 12th percentile arm length and 27th percentile hands.
Then you watch him play. And you can see the 81st percentile 40 and the 89th percentile broad jump in a matter of snaps. Height has plenty of juice. If the 49ers don’t feel like they need an edge rusher early, Height’s style is closer to Bryce Huff. Not only does Height have the speed, but his effort also jumps out.
The sixth-year senior only lined up in a three-point stance 2% of the time last season. He had 9.5 sacks, 35 quarterback hits, and 59 pressures. His pressure rate was an outrageous 20%. Throw in 14 tackles for loss and getting that kind of production in the role Height would play at the end of the third round feels like solid value for the 49ers.
Cooper Jr., Boston, and Concepcion are all projected to go in the first round. For my money, Boston is in a separate tier from the others. I’d rank them Boston, Concepcion, and Cooper Jr., each in their own tier.
I’d trust Boston to win at every level and do so in ways where he wouldn’t need to be schemed open. He’s not as fast as the other two, but speed is not one of the traits that come to mind early when thinking about where a wide receiver needs to win.
Concepcion is fast enough to rethink that last sentence. He’s a blur. He’s also a better route runner than you’d initially think. Still, problems at the collegiate level with drops can’t help me think physicality will make it difficult for Concepion to reach his ceiling.
If I hear Cooper Jr. is like Deebo Samuel one more time… Deebo’s vertical was two inches better at 15 pounds heavier. Deebo also ran a short shuttle and excelled (70th percentile). Cooper Jr. elected not to run. When a prospect skips an event, it’s a tell that he isn’t timing well. You can see when Cooper Jr. has the ball, like on a reverse, for example, his change of direction isn’t in the same stratosphere as Deebo’s. I’d like Cooper Jr. more if he were being talked about at the end of the second round, not the first.
