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Biggest 49ers winners and losers from the 2019 NFL Draft

By Peter Panacy

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 28: NFL Commissoner Roger Goodell greets Aldon Smith, #7 overall pick by the San Francisco 49ers, during the 2011 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall on April 28, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Chris Trotman/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 28: NFL Commissoner Roger Goodell greets Aldon Smith, #7 overall pick by the San Francisco 49ers, during the 2011 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall on April 28, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Chris Trotman/Getty Images) /
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NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – APRIL 25: Nick Bosa of Ohio State reacts after being chosen #2 overall by the San Francisco 49ers during the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft on April 25, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – APRIL 25: Nick Bosa of Ohio State reacts after being chosen #2 overall by the San Francisco 49ers during the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft on April 25, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images) /

With the 2019 NFL Draft now in the books, Niner Noise looks back through the San Francisco 49ers ranks and determines the biggest winners and losers from the three-day event.

If you want one winner from the San Francisco 49ers and the 2019 NFL Draft, it’s the team’s top pick, former Ohio State edge rusher Nick Bosa.

Why is Bosa a winner? Well, just ask the No. 2 overall pick himself, who told local media after being selected by the Niners in Round 1:

"Just to be on a team that really shouldn’t have been this high in the draft with all the talent that they have, and then they add Dee Ford, which just makes this D-Line pretty scary, yeah just having, it’s pretty impossible to double team any of us because then you’re single teaming one of us. It’s going to be fun."

Bosa joins a defensive line comprised of four other former first-round NFL Draft picks: Ford, DeForest Buckner, Arik Armstead and Solomon Thomas.

That’s a logjam, yes. But there’s also a lot of talent, which should help maximize all the traits Bosa displayed, which ultimately led to the Niners using their top pick on him.

So, it’s pretty safe to call Bosa as one of the 49ers’ biggest winners of the 2019 NFL Draft, right? If things go well enough, he could easily wind up being one of the entire league’s best winners, too. That’ll be determined between now and 2020.

Yet there’s rarely a situation in which “everyone wins” at the NFL level. For each winner the Niners have, with the 2019 draft now complete, there is going to be a loser or collection of losers.

Case in point, Bosa’s addition creates some doubt about the futures of multiple defensive linemen, who’ll lose snaps to Bosa right out of the gate.