Fred Warner

San Francisco 49ers

Pos LB

Updated October 8, 2026

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Model Score

93.0 MODEL

2018

87.2

2019

87.2

2020

91.7

2021

85.8

2022

89.8

2023

86.2

2024

81.1

2025

85.8

2026

93.0

How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →

STM Take

Four Pro Bowls plus three 1st-team All-Pros plus two Super Bowl appearances plus the 2025 tier 1 (#3) bounce-back establishes Warner as the best linebacker of his generation. The BYU 3rd-round origin plus eight years of 49ers anchor reps gives him the structural Hall-of-Fame trajectory. The 2026 question is whether Warner wins his first DPOY or whether the broader voting catches up to the multi-year STTM dominance.

Warner came out of BYU as the San Francisco 49ers' 3rd-round pick (70th overall) in 2018. He has made four Pro Bowls (2020-2023) and earned three 1st-team All-Pro selections (2020, 2022, 2023). He played in Super Bowls LIV and LVIII for the 49ers. His STTM career runs tier 3 (#17) in 2021, tier 1 (#4) in 2022, tier 3 (#18) in 2023, tier 7 (#55) in 2024, and tier 1 (#3) bounce-back in 2025.

Strengths

Four Pro Bowls plus three 1st-team All-Pros plus two Super Bowl appearances establishes a Hall-of-Fame LB résumé.
BYU 3rd-round origin plus the 2025 tier 1 (#3) bounce-back after the 2024 tier 7 dip confirms the elite ceiling is structural across multiple years.

Concerns

2024 tier 7 (#55) dip confirms the structural ceiling can compress under specific defensive context.
San Francisco's broader defensive identity transition (multiple coordinators) puts continued Warner production partly outside his control.

What to watch: Whether Warner wins his first DPOY in 2026 plus holds tier 1 (top 5), the threshold for closing the Hall-of-Fame résumé case.