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How Many Players on the 49ers Currently are Untradeable?

Unfortunately for the 49ers, they can't do a full rebuild yet because some of their high-priced veterans are untradeable assets.
Grant Cohn|
Oct 20, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk (11) lays on the ground after suffering an injury against the Kansas City Chiefs in the second quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Cary Edmondson-Imagn Images
Oct 20, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk (11) lays on the ground after suffering an injury against the Kansas City Chiefs in the second quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Cary Edmondson-Imagn Images | Cary Edmondson-Imagn Images

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The 49ers started a mini-rebuild this offseason when they traded Deebo Samuel and let eight free agents walk.

Unfortunately for the 49ers, they can't do a full rebuild yet because some of their high-priced veterans are untradeable assets. Meaning they're not worth the contract to which the 49ers signed them. So the 49ers are stuck with them.

Brandon Aiyuk currently is untradeable. The 49ers gave him a four-year deal worth $30 million per season even though he wasn't a top-five wide receiver in the NFL. Then he blew out his knee in Week 7. Now, no team would trade for him before seeing him run a route in a game. So he'll be on the 49ers for a while.

Christian McCaffrey currently is untradeable. The 49ers gave him a two-year extension worth $19 million per season last year, then he missed all but four games with bilateral Achilles tendonitis and a torn PCL. Now it's unclear if he'll ever be durable again. He turns 29 in June.

Trent Williams currently is untradeable. The 49ers gave him a three-year deal worth $27.5 million per season last year, then he missed the final seven games with a bruised ankle. General manager John Lynch said that Williams intends to play next season, but Williams hasn't said that yet.

Brock Purdy currently is untradeable. The 49ers haven't given him an extension yet, but he seems to want $60 million per season or close to it and the only team that would even entertain the thought of paying him anywhere near that much is the 49ers.

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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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