RE: Why they traded up to draft wide receiver Devin FunchessRon Rivera: “When you look at the board and the way it was set, he was a guy we had rated in the first round. He was a guy that’s going to bring something different to the table in terms of big catch radius, big size, a little bit more speed. I think it’s going to be interesting to see the combinations we’ll be able to put out there on the offensive side.”RE: Why they changed their mind about trading up this roundDave Gettleman: “The board was really getting picked clean. I really expected four or five picks into the second round is usually when the board goes haywire. Everybody starts getting all over the place and very frankly we were concerned about sitting where we were. We had five players up there, and we just didn’t know if any of them would be there … A couple of them fell off really quickly, and it was time for us to make a move. We just didn’t feel that he was going to be there.”RE: If they were trying to get ahead of a specific team by trading upDG: “There were a lot of teams in front of us that needed wides. That’s exactly what we did … I think six teams in front of us that had a legitimate need for a wideout. We had to make the big jump.”

RE: What was appealing about FunchessDG: “Like I told you last year with Kelvin [Benjamin], you can’t coach the size. He plays fast; he’s a smooth, fluid, big man. We like that about him … He plays smart, but again you can’t coach that size. People are going to talk about his 40-yard time in Indianapolis. The kid plays fast, and he ran fast at the pro day at Michigan. He’s a match-up issue. You saw right after we picked him, Atlanta took Jalen Collins. He’s really a talented kid, and the other thing we liked, just like Shaq [Thompson], there’s a big upside to this kid.”RE: If he will play wide receiver or tight end.DG: “He’s a wide receiver. Shaq’s a linebacker. This kid is a wide receiver.” RE: When Funchess got on their radarRR: “From the time that we got the list of guys going into the combine, to when Ricky [Proehl] went up to the pro day, and to when we had him here, he caught everybody’s eye and everybody’s attention. Again, the question everybody really talked about was the speed. When you watch game tape, and you watch the participation tapes, you see a couple things that tell you this kid is a little bit different. He makes catches in traffic. He presents a big target in traffic. He takes a lot of big shots similar to what Kelvin [Benjamin] does. But, then you watch him go vertical which was surprising, and all of a sudden it’s like, ‘Wait a minute, I thought people talked about how he’s not a vertical.’ He’s a vertical target … I kept thinking back to my time with Coach [Norv] Turner in San Diego when we had Malcolm Floyd and Vincent Jackson going vertical, those two big targets. I think that’s what you’re looking at right now. You couple those two big bodies and you mix in your tight end Greg Olsen, you mix in Ed Dickson, our twelve package with those two big bodies. You throw Teddy Ginn, Jr. out there and Corey Brown, now all of a sudden you’ve got two guys that go fast, two guys that are big targets. You’ve got different combinations of guys that are going to pose some match-up problems.”DG: “Certainly don’t discount Jerricho [Cotchery] in this mix now. Don’t discount Jerricho at all. He’s a shrewd, crafty player and he can still do it.”RE: What this pick does in terms of the passing gameRR: “Teams are going to have to look at that and try to figure out the best way to match-up with our wide receivers, our 11-personnel package which is three wide receivers. Do you have the ability to keep three linebackers on the field, and if you don’t, do you go to your nickel package or do you go to your dime package? Now you give us an opportunity to run the football. Big wide receivers also tend to block big, and that’s the other thing too that has been a big plus for us. Kelvin’s turning into a nice blocking wide receiver that you can run the ball behind. Now you add Devin to the mix, you have another big wide receiver that can block, now you can go left or right. Not necessarily always behind Kelvin, but now you can run behind Devin.”RE: If they’re confident in the speed they have at the wide receiver positionDG: “Well, obviously Teddy [Ginn, Jr.] can fly, we know that. Corey [Brown] can run. Stephen Hill, who’s going to get every opportunity, so we’ve got speed there. I feel good about that.”RE: If they moved on from looking at drafting an offensive tackle after D.J. Humphries was picked last nightDG: “We felt with the way the board was set, very frankly, there wasn’t anybody there we were willing to take a shot at. So, that was part of the process, part of the decision. There’s still some guys up there that are very interesting. We’ve just got to see how it falls.”