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49ers Sign Tashaun Gipson to One Year $2.9 Million Contract

Gipson is a journeyman who has bounced around the league, but everywhere he has gone, he has produced.
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49ers Sign Tashaun Gipson to One Year $2.9 Million Contract
49ers Sign Tashaun Gipson to One Year $2.9 Million Contract

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The 49ers just re-signed one of their most underrated players.

Free safety Tashaun Gipson received a one-year $2.9 million contract extension from the 49ers today, according to reports. Gispon, 32, played all 17 regular season games for the 49ers last season and intercepted a whopping five passes while allowing a passer rating of just 63.8.

Gipson is a journeyman who has bounced around the league, but everywhere he has gone, he has produced. He has 32 interceptions in his career, which means he's a bargain for the 49ers. And if we're being honest, he's their best safety, not Talanoa Hufanga, who was an All Pro last season. And that's no disrespect to Hufanga -- he deserved to be an All Pro. But so did Gipson. He was more consistent and gave up far fewer big plays and touchdowns.

Gipson's deal might indicate the 49ers don't plan to re-sign veteran Jimmie Ward, unless they want to give him $10 million to $12 million to play nickelback, which is possible -- he certainly would be worth it. But it seems like the 49ers are looking for bargains in the secondary. Gipson definitely is a bargain. Ward will not be -- he will go to the highest bidder.

Also, Emmanuel Moseley will not be a bargain -- it's possible he'll sign elsewhere and the 49ers will replace him with Deommodore Lenoir, who finished last season strong after struggling initially.

Free agency starts this Wednesday, and the legal tampering period starts on Monday. Stay tuned.

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Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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