It seems the Niners are taking a hard look at Oklahoma’s athletic offensive lineman Chris Chester. Last month the 49ers had a formal face-to-face interview at the NFL Combine with the Oklahoma product. Chester has emerged as one of the top three prospects at center in the April draft after his impressive performance at the combine. Chester, a converted tight end who also can play guard, is one of several versatile linemen on the Niners’ board that the team will be tracking on draft day.
Scouting Report:
Height: 6-3 3/8 | Weight: 303 | 40-Time: 4.88Strengths:
An outstanding athlete…Has good size and the frame to bulk up further…Very mobile and moves well in space…Versatile player with the ability to play multiple positions…A hard worker…Smart and picked up the position well…Lots of upside.Weaknesses:
Has only one year of starting experience…Very raw and needs a lot of technique work…Is not very strong or powerful…Is not overly dominant in the running game…Has some durability concerns…Will not be ready to contribute right away.Notes:
Could also project to guard…A former tight end who just moved to the offensive line in 2004 and didn’t really play much until 2005…Certainly has some intriguing physical tools to work with and is an interesting long-term developmental guy.
Vaughn said:
I THINK Offensive Linemen are our least priority right now. We need lots of help elsewhere. Would you agree!
5 mins after the fact.Vaughn said:
If we do happen to go after O-Line, I hope it would be later in the 2nd day of the draft round.
12 mins after the fact.stephen said:
newberry heir apparent? if i’m not mistaken, david baas was touted as newberry’s understudy after he was taken in the second round last year! perhaps we should stick to one prospect for more than 10 months to give them a chance to grow into a position, rather than constantly shifting everyone around. Changing a player’s position immensely slows down his development, especially along the O-line. We need to allow our young linemen to grow both as a unit and in their individual positions/roles, and only take linemen during the second day, as Vaughn said…
20 mins after the fact.steve said:
what do you mean oline is our least priority, i think its one of our biggest.
1 hour after the fact.Vaughn said:
I believe O-Line is 1 of our least priorities, we have young offensive linemen such as Baas, Heitman, Smiley, and Snyder who are all very talented but they need time to develop. We got experienced players in Newberry, Harris, and Jonas Jennings. Look at our other positions that are in need of this kind of depth, you cannot tell me that we need this to be our first priority. The Offensive line will develop, just be patient on it.
2 hours after the fact.orcrist said:
Jeeze, I would think that O-line is always a priority, but I do think we have a pretty solid line that just needs to gel. We should add depth this year, but I would be looking more for solid, versitile back-ups in free agency to add veteran leadership. I would take D’Brick if we can get him at #6, or Winston Justice if we can get him in a value position(late first or early 2nd). Other than those two I think we should aim only for solid developable players in the mid-rounds.
Chris Chester looks like he has a lot of upside, but Raw & not particularly strong are indications that a starting center position are years away for Chris.
I am still looking for Baas to get more development at center. At this point we are looking for Heitman’s heir appearant. Given a chance, I think that Bass might do well with Heitman and Smiley surrounding him.
Does Bass struggle with reads or making calls?
1 day after the fact.Darrel said:
Durability concerns, inteesting long term potential?? No thanx, we got plenty of young and veteran lineman(Kwame will be ridin pine this year with snyder at rt hopefully). I’m sure we could find a sleeper late on the first day, but most of our picks should be used on skill positions and D.
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