No college talent pipeline is flowing more freely to the 49ers than the one helmed by University of Washington coach Jedd Fisch.

Two more of Fisch’s players, offensive lineman Carver Willis and cornerback Ephesians Prysock, are 49ers after the team spent consecutive fourth-round picks on them in the NFL Draft. Carver and Prysock join receiver Jacob Cowing, a 2024 draft pick who played for Fisch at the University of Arizona, and former Washington defensive tackle Sebastian Valdez (nicknamed “The Hulk”).

The 49ers have been locked in on even more Fisch products — they loved Arizona receiver Tetairoa McMillan in 2025, so much that they were rumored to have attempted a trade-up to get him — and can be expected to vie for more in future drafts considering the feeder-style program Washington is running.

Fisch, 50, has coached with seven NFL teams. One of those stints was in 2008 with the Broncos under Kyle Shanahan’s dad, Mike. John Lynch, at the end of his Hall of Fame playing career, was under contract with Denver for a few months of Fisch’s tenure.

“That’s where we all met, spent time together, talked football together,” Fisch said. “We all connected there.”

Nearly two decades later, Jake Lynch — John’s son, who is on the 49ers’ staff as a defensive quality-control coach — graduated college and wanted to get into the coaching ranks. A relationship forged in 2008 came full circle.

“I really believe in giving back to the profession,” Fisch said in a phone interview last week. “So I told John, ‘We’ll give Jake a job here, let him get his feet wet before he goes and works for you and works for Kyle.’ And then Kyle called me a year later, saying the 49ers wanted to hire Jake. I said, ‘Great. Hopefully we got him prepared the best we could.’”

Jake Lynch served as a graduate assistant for Washington in 2024. Cutting up tape for defensive backs was one of his primary duties. That meant working with Prysock, a junior at the time. The two have been reunited in the 49ers’ defensive back room.

“Coach Fisch tried to make us the 33rd NFL team,” Prysock said. “He does a lot of pro-style things to prepare you for the next level.”

Fisch’s connection to the 49ers actually predates that 2008 Denver tie. From 2005 to 2007, Fisch overlapped on the Baltimore Ravens’ staff with 49ers offensive line coach Chris Foerster — who’s been an annual visitor to Washington in the pre-draft process since Fisch took over in 2024.

This year, Foerster’s trip to Seattle solidified his belief in Willis, who wowed Fisch in his lone season as Washington’s left tackle.

“Chris is probably my best friend in this profession, and I run a lot of things by him all the time,” Fisch said. “And I’m just so grateful that the guy Carver gets to get coached by is Chris, because I know there’s not a better offensive line coach in the country.”

After spending five seasons as a right tackle at Kansas State, Willis needed more refinement to become a draftable NFL player. He contacted Washington because Fisch had developed such a good reputation readying pro talent. (This year, the Huskies produced seven draftees and two undrafted signees — and didn’t lose a starter to the transfer portal, a sign of faith in their program’s developmental capabilities.)

“Carver was the easiest recruit I’ve ever had,” Fisch said. “He knew exactly what he wanted to do. He wanted to get into an NFL offense. He had one more year of college football to play, and he wanted to invest every ounce of his being into trying to become an NFL player. We reached out to him, and within one day — it was almost too good to be true.”

Willis bulked up from 280 to 303 pounds over his year with the Huskies. He excelled in a system that uses the 49ers’ terminology — “We run a variation of the Shanahan system where the verbiage is the exact same verbiage that we had from the Broncos with Mike,” Fisch said — and allowed only two sacks over 520 snaps. Above all else, Willis was a quick and punishing run blocker at Washington.

His arms, which measure 32.5 inches, aren’t quite long enough to be ideally suited to play tackle in the NFL. So the 49ers are moving Willis to the interior, where he’ll initially compete with veterans Robert Jones, Brett Toth, and Connor Colby at left guard.

Fisch’s staff, anticipating that a move would be necessary at the next level, worked Willis at center at the end of practices in 2025 so that he’d be familiar with snapping. The 49ers just so happen to have a starting center, Jake Brendel, who will be 34 this season and is entering his final year under contract — so Willis gives the 49ers another future option for that critical position.

Fisch noted how quickly Willis blossomed into a leader at Washington and relayed that information to the 49ers.

“He was on every player panel for our recruiting weekends, which I really appreciated,” Fisch said, “because he had only been here five months at that point.”

The 49ers’ other Washington product, Prysock, played under Fisch for much longer.

The 6-foot-3 cornerback — that’s the same height as former 49ers’ cornerback Richard Sherman — enrolled at Arizona in 2022 and earned a starting job as a skinny true freshman. He joined the Wildcats the same year as Cowing and McMillan. Arizona had been 1-11 the prior season, Fisch’s first as coach. The Wildcats surged to a 10-3 record and a No. 11 end-of-season ranking in 2023.

McMillan and Cowing entered the NFL Draft right after that. Prysock followed Fisch to Washington, where he started 26 more games over two years before landing with the 49ers.

Prysock was already tall when Fisch recruited him out of Salesian High School in Los Angeles (the alma mater of 49ers cornerback Deommodore Lenoir, who was teammates with Prysock’s two older brothers), but he added about 25 pounds of muscle over his college career to develop into a much stronger tackler.

“He’s just hard to throw over, and he’s hard to throw around,” Fisch said. “Initially, he was more of a cover corner, but I felt this past year was his best year at tackling and was his best year at being physical.

“Turning on his film from Year 1 to Year 4, what stands out to me the most is his willingness to get a guy down quickly and the physicality of his tackling. … I think he’s going to be somebody that can play multiple positions.”

The 49ers have stacked their defensive backfield this offseason, also signing veteran cornerbacks Nate Hobbs and Jack Jones to reinforce the starting trio of Lenoir, Renardo Green, and Upton Stout.

The shift to new defensive coordinator Raheem Morris and DB coach Jerry Gray promises added multiplicity on the back end; players like Hobbs should compete at the “big nickel,” a spot the 49ers previously manned with safeties. But with cornerbacks taking on more assignments previously distributed to safeties, Prysock could have a path to early playing time.

To make that possible, he will have to refine his technique. Prysock was too grabby in 2025, drawing six flags — four for pass interference and two for holding. But Fisch believes Prysock’s work ethic is cut out for the rigors of the NFL, and physical prowess is undeniable. An arm length of over 33 inches places Prysock in the 94th percentile of cornerbacks — and it’s rare to see a player that long with such impressive speed (4.45 40-yard dash).

Fisch also points to Prysock’s 42 starts over four college seasons — all in a press-heavy, zone-based system that should allow for familiarity with the 49ers’ defensive demands.

“That’s a lot of football the guy played in the same system,” Fisch said. “That’s a rarity nowadays. You can get guys that can really blossom in a system. And you can’t start that many games, start as a true freshman, start in multiple bowl games, and make huge impacts in huge games if you don’t work your tail off to do it.

“Even though he was tall and quiet and this kind of linear kid, he found a way through studying film so he could play as a true freshman. And that’s impressive.”

Prysock battled with the 6-foot-5 McMillan and the smaller speedster Cowing at Arizona’s practices before transferring to Washington and locking horns with Denzel Boston, a 6-foot-4 receiver who was drafted by the Cleveland Browns.

Those are examples of the type of high-level competition that Fisch believes is necessary to make his program a consistent NFL feeder.

Talent is one ingredient. Scheme and process are the others — and Washington has established all three pillars effectively enough to grab plenty of NFL attention, especially from the 49ers.

“The relationships have stayed very strong,” Fisch said. “There’s a lot of pieces that are connected there.”

Add two more to the 49ers’ mix.