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Are the 49ers Truly All In for 2024?

If the 49ers truly were all in for 2024, they could restructure some big contracts, create lots of cap space and make the league's most expensive roster even more expensive.

Grant Cohn

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The 49ers like to say they're all in to win the Super Bowl, but are they really all in?

They currently have the most expensive roster in the NFL, considering it costs more than $300 million against the salary cap this season. So in that sense, the 49ers are aggressively pushing their chips into the middle of the table, perhaps more than any other team.

But the 49ers have hardly any cap space this offseason, so it seems they won't make a big move. They're more likely to stand pat and work around the edges of their already elite roster while other teams such as the Lions and the Rams try to improve their teams and close the gap.

But if the 49ers truly were all in for 2024, they could restructure some big contracts, create lots of cap space and make the league's most expensive roster even more expensive.

Right now, the 49ers could restructure Deebo Samuel's contract and create more than $15 million in cap space. They also could restructure Trent Williams' contract and create more than $14 million in cap space. They also could restructure Arik Armstead's contract and create more than $12 million in cap space. They also could restructure Fred Warner's contract and create more than $10 million in cap space. They also could restructure Charvarius Ward's contract and create more than $9 million in cap space.

That's more than $60 million in cap space the 49ers could create simply by restructuring five contracts.

When they do that, then they'll be all in.

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Grant Cohn
GRANT COHN

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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