Most recently, Donahue has addressed the following areas of need, cornerback, defensive tackle, safety, offensive tackle, center, tight end, quarterback and receiver. Couple that with the past announcements of the team looking for defensive ends, linebackers, running backs, and kickers. Essentially the 49ers have referred to every position on the roster as a need area. Slick, isn't?

"One (priority) is a left tackle," Donahue said. "Can you get your hands on a left tackle? Another would be our nickel defense. We could use some backups at center, at tight end, definitely a linebacker, maybe two. I think we have to look at the quarterback position and ask ourselves, Are we solid there for the future? And we've got to look at the wide receiver position."

The team also expressed a desire to trade up, or down, and that it is considering staying put at the 27th position. It seems to be a Bill Walsh tradition to misdirect other teams as much as possible in the draft, and apparently, the "Genius" had no problem passing on the trade secret to his understudy. Of course, there is no reason not to, when the rest of the league already has copied such practices. The 49ers however, usually seem a cut above the rest however, when it comes to passing miss-information.