SANTA CLARA, Calif. – The National Football League announced on Monday that the San Francisco 49ers have been penalized by the League resulting from administrative payroll accounting errors.
As a result, the 49ers will have a fourth-round selection in the 2024 be moved from No. 131 to No. 135 and have also forfeited a fifth-round pick in the 2025 draft.
"We take responsibility and accept the imposed discipline from the NFL due to a clerical payroll error," the Niners said in a statement. "At no time did we mislead or otherwise deceive the league or gain a competitive advantage in connection with the payroll mistake."
According to a statement from the NFL, a league review discovered the payroll accounting errors at the end of the 2022 league year that resulted in "a misreporting of the team's cumulative player compensation."
"The NFL determined that the club would have remained under the salary cap at all times regardless of the error and there was no intent to circumvent the cap," the league statement read.
Despite the penalties, the San Francisco will still have 10 total picks in the upcoming draft, including three in the fourth round (Nos. 124, 132 and 135).
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