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The 49ers Have "Tighter Constraints" in terms of Spending this Year

The 49ers are concerned about cash spending this year. Don't expect any major additions to the team.
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Feb 27, 2025; Indianapolis, IN, USA; San Francisco 49ers general manager John Lynch speaks during the 2025 NFL Scouting Combine at the Indiana Convention Center. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images
Feb 27, 2025; Indianapolis, IN, USA; San Francisco 49ers general manager John Lynch speaks during the 2025 NFL Scouting Combine at the Indiana Convention Center. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images | Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

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INDIANAPOLIS -- The 49ers want to start spending more wisely.

Since John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan joined the organization in 2017, the 49ers have spent more cash than all but one NFL team. Just last season, the 49ers gave up huge contracts with massive signing bonuses to multiple players who went on to struggle: Brandon Aiyuk, Trent Williams and Christian McCaffrey in particular.

This year, it seems as though the 49ers owners have told the 49ers front office that the budget will be tighter for the time being.

"Some tighter constraints than we've had in the past," Lynch said this week at the NFL Scouting Combine. "You have to be smart and you have to think about long-term health. So we always want to be competitive now and into the future, and if you just keep going going going, which I love doing, but you also have to step back sometimes and recalibrate.

"Our thought has always been you grow the core and then you supplement around that. That's probably what we have to do a little more of this year."

Lynch confirmed that the 49ers will honor Deebo Samuel's trade request and have been listening to trade offers for Aiyuk as well. Ownership could save lots of cash this year by parting ways with those two. Of course, the 49ers would take on huge salary-cap penalties, but that's another issue.

The 49ers are concerned about cash spending this year. Don't expect any major additions to the team.

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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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