The San Francisco 49ers will forfeit their unique fifth-round choice within the 2025 NFL Draft and can have their 2024 fourth-round choice moved 4 spots down behind compensatory picks resulting from an administrative payroll accounting error, NFL Community Insider Tom Pelissero reported Monday, per a supply.
A league evaluation discovered errors on the shut of the 2022 league yr, resulting in motion by the NFL that may impact the membership’s subsequent two drafts.
On this yr’s draft, the 49ers’ unique fourth-round choose at No. 131 will now transfer to No. 135.
Pelissero added that the NFL decided the membership would have remained beneath the wage cap always whatever the error and there was no intent to avoid the cap.
The 49ers at present maintain 10 whole picks within the 2024 NFL Draft, which is about to start on April 25 from Detroit.