49ers lose 2025 pick, docked fourth-round position for payroll issues

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Payroll errors in 2022 caused the NFL to dock the San Francisco 49ers a 2025 fifth-round pick and forfeit a better position in the fourth round in the 2024 draft for an accounting mistake that impacted salary-cap projections.

"This action resulted from a league review that found administrative payroll accounting errors at the close of the 2022 league year that resulted i