{"id":204615,"date":"2026-04-21T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/49ers-say-ai-is-helping-shape-their-nfl-draft-player-evaluations-this-year\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T18:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:30:13","slug":"49ers-say-ai-is-helping-shape-their-nfl-draft-player-evaluations-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/49ers-say-ai-is-helping-shape-their-nfl-draft-player-evaluations-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers say AI is helping shape their NFL Draft player evaluations this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/49ers-turning-artificial-intelligence-ahead-nfl-draft-gm-says-laggards-already-behind\">49ers say AI is helping shape their NFL Draft player evaluations this year<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/49ers-turning-artificial-intelligence-ahead-nfl-draft-gm-says-laggards-already-behind\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/49ers-turning-artificial-intelligence-ahead-nfl-draft-gm-says-laggards-already-behind<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-21 18:12:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.foxnews.com\">www.foxnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The San Francisco 49ers have incorporated artificial intelligence (AI) into their front office strategies for the upcoming NFL Draft.<\/li>\n<li>The Niners hold six picks in the draft, including the 27th overall selection, which will see AI playing a notable role in selection decisions.<\/li>\n<li>General Manager John Lynch emphasized that utilizing AI is essential for staying competitive, likening it to planning a travel itinerary at home for accessible, beneficial suggestions.<\/li>\n<li>AI integration by the 49ers aims to enhance the team\u2019s innovative edge, indicating that its use in sports selection processes will likely increase.<\/li>\n<li>This offseason, the Niners made a significant move by signing wide receiver Mike Evans to a lucrative $42.5 million contract, though they continue to face challenges in maintaining wide receiver consistency due to injuries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>49ers say AI is helping shape their NFL Draft player evaluations this year https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/49ers-turning-artificial-intelligence-ahead-nfl-draft-gm-says-laggards-already-behind Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/brock-purdy-john-lynch-49ers-fox-news-001.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-204615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204617,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204615\/revisions\/204617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}