The San Francisco 49ers select Javon Kinlaw with the 14th overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft.
The 49ers originally held the 13th overall selection in the draft. However, just minutes prior to their selection, San Francisco traded their pick to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In exchange, the Bucs also received the 117th overall pick in the draft while the Niners nabbed the 245th overall pick.
Kinlaw was a First-Team All SEC selection at Alabama last season. The 6-foot-6, 324-pound defensive tackle posted 35 tackles and six sacks last season for the Crimson Tide.
The Niners will hope that Kinlaw can fill the void of DeForest Buckner. San Francisco traded the Pro Bowl selection to the Indianapolis Colts for this first-round pick last month. General manager John Lynch spoke of the tough decision to trade one of their defensive leaders.
“Probably the toughest thing I’ve done since I’ve been a General Manager here, and that’s the trade with DeForest Buckner,” Lynch recently said, via Nick Wagoner of ESPN. “It’s a difficult part of this business. One that I don’t think you can really prepare yourself when you move on from a player who embodies everything that you want to be about. We spend a lot of time talking about what’s a 49er to us, and DeForest Buckner embodied that in every way both on and off the field.”
In an ironic twist of things, the Niners have replaced Buckner with that aforementioned pick.
There's no doubt that Kinlaw will figure into things rather quickly in San Francisco.
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