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The 49ers Trade Jordan Mason to the Vikings in a Pick Swap

Bizarre.

Grant Cohn

Oct 23, 2023; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; San Francisco 49ers running back Jordan Mason (24) reacts during the game against the Minnesota Vikings at U.S. Bank Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jeffrey Becker-Imagn Images
Oct 23, 2023; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; San Francisco 49ers running back Jordan Mason (24) reacts during the game against the Minnesota Vikings at U.S. Bank Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jeffrey Becker-Imagn Images / Jeffrey Becker-Imagn Images
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Wow.

The 49ers just traded Jordan Mason and pick No. 187 to the Minnesota Vikings for pick No. 160 and a sixth-rounder in 2026 according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.

This is a phenomenal trade -- for the Vikings. They get a young running back entering his prime with barely any tread on his tires and he runs harder than just about any other player in the NFL. He's a terrific complement to Vikings starting running back Aaron Jones, who's a smaller slasher.

For the 49ers, this trade is purely financial. They recently gave Mason a second-round tender because they didn't want to lose him and get nothing in return, but a second-round tender costs more than $5 million, and the 49ers already are paying Christian McCaffrey $19 million per season. So Mason had to go, apparently.

The Vikings gave Mason a two-year deal with $7 million guaranteed. Meanwhile, the 49ers gave Kyle Juszcyk a two-year, $8 million deal this morning. Which means the 49ers chose to sign a fullback who will turn 34 in April over a running back who will turn 26 in May.

Bizarre.

Mason plays an important position and is improving. Juszczyk plays an antiquated position and is rapidly regressing. In a year or two, Juszczyk will be out of the league and Mason will be flourishing.

The Vikings are all-in, as opposed to the 49ers who have taken a bigger step back than any other team so far this offseason.

Again, bizarre.

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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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