Kurtenbach: 3 things we learned from the 49ers' 2024 draft

Trent Williams isn't going anywhere. In the weeks leading up to the NFL Draft, the 49ers were telegraphing that they would take a tackle — the successor to Trent Williams, it was presumed — with the team's first-round pick. But when the top of the first round featured seemingly nothing but quarterbacks, receivers, and offensive tackles, taking some presumed viable options for the 49ers off the board well before the team went on the clock, San Francisco pivoted. And when the Niners didn't trade up to select Washington tackle Roger Rosengarten in the second round, the message it sent was unmistakable. Williams, 35, has flirted with retirement in recent seasons, but he is under contract to play