The 49ers have scheduled a meeting with the likely No. 1 overall overall pick in the upcoming draft, Texas A&M defensive lineman Myles Garrett, the player announced at his pro day Thursday, according to Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle.
49ers general manager John Lynch was in attendance at Garrett’s pro day when he made the announcement in College Station, TX. Lynch was effusive in his praise.
“I thought it was impressive,” Lynch told Wilson in a video posted on Twitter. “Here’s this kid who really doesn’t need to show everyone much more, but yet he shows up and runs a 40. I think it just speaks to the kind of kid he is. It was impressive. It’s well-documented – I’m not saying anything ground-breaking – he’s a special athlete.”
Garrett (6 foot 4, 272 pounds) ran a 4.56 40-yard dash at his pro day.
“He checks all the boxes. That’s why people are talking about him in the way they are.”
Garrett is one of 30 players on the 49ers list of prospects from outside the Bay Area, due to NFL stipulations that teams are only allowed to bring i 30 non-local prospects. The 49ers can meet with as many players as they want who played at local colleges, however, and will meet with a number of prospects from Stanford, Cal, San Jose State when they hold their pro day on April 12 in Santa Clara.
The Cleveland Browns hold the first overall pick in the draft and are expected to select Garrett, especially after Browns head coach Hue Jackson’s comments that the team will not trade the pick for a quarterback. The Browns also own the 12th overall pick. Jackson said it is too soon (the draft is on April 27) for the team to announce the are officially committing to any one.
In a draft that is considered to be mostly a crapshoot, Garrett is marked by nearly every evaluator to be the most talented prospect in the draft, and a bonafide star at the NFL level. The defensive end was a unanimous All-American in 2016, a first-team All American in 2015, while also winning the Bill Willis award, given to the best defensive lineman in college football.
Garrett recorded 31 sacks and 47 tackles for loss during his three-year college career. Were he to fall to the 49ers at No.2 overall, Lynch and Co. would be expected to take him.