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Jaylon Moore is the 49ers' Highest-Graded Pending Free Agent per PFF

The 49ers will lose some quality players this offseason.
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Oct 9, 2022; Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; San Francisco 49ers guard Jaylon Moore (76) during the second quarter against the Carolina Panthers at Bank of America Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jim Dedmon-Imagn Images
Oct 9, 2022; Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; San Francisco 49ers guard Jaylon Moore (76) during the second quarter against the Carolina Panthers at Bank of America Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jim Dedmon-Imagn Images | Jim Dedmon-Imagn Images

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The 49ers will lose some quality players this offseason.

They currently have more than $50 million in cap space, and they will spend most of that money on keeping their own players. But they can't keep everyone because they have so many players scheduled for free agency.

Their highest-graded pending free agent is offensive tackle Jaylon Moore.

"This honor would have gone to Dre Greenlaw (82.0 PFF overall grade), but the linebacker mustered only 34 snaps this past year," writes PFF analyst Bradley Locker. "Meanwhile, Moore was a solid fill-in at left tackle, surrendering only one sack and 10 pressures on 154 opportunities. The 27-year-old was generally effective as a run blocker, reflected in his 70.1 PFF run-blocking grade. With only 831 career offensive snaps under his belt, Moore projects best as a swing and/or depth tackle. With Trent Williams’ decision to return not yet known, the 49ers could look to bring Moore back if they need to usher in a more marquee replacement."

The 49ers have said they expect Trent Williams to play next season after signing an extension last year, but the death of his unborn child could change his mind. In addition, Williams will turn 37 next season. So instead of letting Jaylon Moore leave in free agency and attempting to replace him with a rookie who doesn't know Kyle Shanahan's system, they could re-sign him. He probably won't be particularly expensive considering he has started just 12 games in his career.

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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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