49ers to Forfeit Draft Pick Due to Administrative Accounting Errors

The San Francisco 49ers reportedly must forfeit a draft pick due to multiple administrative accounting errors in 2022.

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00:00 This is embarrassing.

00:02 The 49ers must forfeit a fifth round draft pick in 2025

00:07 due to multiple administrative accounting errors in 2022.

00:11 In addition, their fourth round pick this year

00:14 will be moved to the end of the round.

00:17 Here's what the 49ers had to say in a written statement.

00:20 We take responsibility and accept the imposed discipline

00:23 from the NFL due to a clerical payroll error.

00:27 At no time did we mislead or otherwise deceive the league

00:31 or gain a competitive advantage

00:33 in connection with the payroll mistake.

00:36 Apparently, the 49ers incorrectly disclosed to the league

00:40 how much money they paid their players in 2022.

00:43 According to the 49ers, this was an honest mistake

00:47 and in no way were they trying to create

00:49 a competitive advantage, which in some ways is even worse.

00:53 You could somewhat understand a team trying to bend a rule

00:57 or find a loophole if it would create an advantage,

01:00 although that would be cheating.

01:02 But to simply make an accounting error

01:04 that costs the team a fifth round pick

01:06 plus draft position in round four is incompetent.

01:09 We don't yet know precisely what the 49ers did wrong,

01:14 but it sounds like someone should get fired.

01:16 I've never heard of an accounting mistake

01:19 costing a team a draft pick.

01:21 And a round five pick is not a throwaway pick

01:25 considering that's the round in which the 49ers

01:27 drafted George Kittle, Talanoa Hafunga, Diamador Lenore,

01:32 and Dre Greenlaw the past few years.

01:34 Let's see if anyone in the organization

01:38 takes personal public accountability for this blunder.

01:41 (upbeat music)

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