Ranking 49ers pairs of 1st-round picks

The 49ers have selected two players in the first round of the NFL draft 14 times since the AFL-NFL merger.

No. 12 | 1974 draft

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Pick 9: RB Wilbur Jackson
Pick 10: DL Bill Sandifer

Jackson was consistently productive in five seasons with the 49ers. He started 59 of his 72 games, and averaged 591 rushing yards with 247 receiving yards per season. The only real dips in production came in Years 2 and 5 where he had 303 and 375 rushing yards, respectively.

The second of their back-to-back picks didn’t turn out nearly as successfully. Sandifer started 13 of the 30 games he played for San Francisco during his three seasons with the club. Only getting 13 starts and 30 games of less-than-stellar production out of the No. 10 overall pick is pretty close to a disaster.