Your daily San Francisco 49ers news for Monday, April 28th, 2025
- LB Stone Blanton, Mississippi State
- RB Corey Kiner, Cincinnati
- OL Drew Moss, Colorado
- WR Isaiah Neyor, Nebraska
- CB Jakob Robinson, BYU
- DL Sebastian Valdez, Washington
“Kurtis Rourke is an older guy, so he’s been on the radar for a while,” 49ers director of player personnel Tariq Ahmad said. “I love the vision. I love the way that he plays the game. He plays quarterback at a very high level, processing, his mind. He throws on time. He throws with vision. He’s got all the ability to make every single throw in the pocket. There’s a lot to like about him.”
In his final three years of college football, Rourke’s teams went a combined 31-9.
“He’s a winner,” 49ers director of scouting and football operations Josh Williams said. “He won at the University of Ohio. He won at Indiana.
“He sees the field well. He’s pretty accurate. He’s tough. He played with a torn ACL. He showed his toughness there. He’s a guy we’re excited about.”
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“Neyor has great size (6-4, 218), speed (40-yard dash: 4.4 seconds) and a huge catch radius (wingspan: 82 5/8 inches).
So why wasn’t he drafted? His elite traits translated to 87 catches and 1,595 receiving yards and 17 touchdowns in five seasons, partly due to injury issues. He played in just one game in 2022-23 due to a torn ACL that he reinjured. After stops at Wyoming and Texas, he transferred to Nebraska last season and had 34 catches for 455 yards.
Neyor’s physical gifts and inexperience make him a classic developmental prospect on the practice squad. He grew up playing basketball and running track, joined the football team as a sophomore in high school and played in just 33 college games.”
“Love his speed,” Shanahan told reporters on Saturday. “It’s the first thing you notice. When you see a guy for the first time, you look at his 40-time, then you watch his routes at the Combine. I thought he was one of the better route runners at the Combine, just with natural receiver skills and everything.”
Watkins posted a 4.37-second 40-yard dash at the NFL Scouting Combine, tied for the sixth-fastest among all receivers in the 2025 draft class. He finished his final collegiate season with 49 catches for 906 yards (an impressive 18.5 yards per catch) and nine touchdowns.
“You watch his hands, he was our best graded-out guy going through the gauntlet and stuff with just true natural hands,” Shanahan added. “I watched his one-on-ones at the Senior Bowl, and then, to how he played at Ole Miss, talking to [Mississippi head coach] Lane [Kiffin], the whole package.”