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Will the 49ers Trade for Eagles Edge Rusher Bryce Huff?

The 49ers might be interested in Huff.
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Oct 13, 2024; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Bryce Huff (0) against the Cleveland Browns at Lincoln Financial Field. Mandatory Credit: Eric Hartline-Imagn Images
Oct 13, 2024; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Bryce Huff (0) against the Cleveland Browns at Lincoln Financial Field. Mandatory Credit: Eric Hartline-Imagn Images | Eric Hartline-Imagn Images

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The Eagles are desperately trying to unload edge rusher Bryce Huff from their roster. Should the 49ers take him off their hands?

The Eagles signed Huff last year to a three-year, $51 million contract and he was a flop. No nicer way to put it. He missed five games, started only six, recorded a mere 2.5 sacks and wilted against the run. Now of course they want to move him and his horrendous contract.

The 49ers might be interested in Huff. That's because Robert Saleh coached Huff on the Jets from 2021 to 2023. And in 2023, Huff recorded 10 sacks as a pass-rush specialist who didn't start. It was a contract year for him and he knocked it out of the park. After he got paid, he went back to being the unproductive one-trick pony he was before his contract year.

So sure, the 49ers probably could get Huff for a fourth- or fifth-round pick. But do they really want to pay all that money for a player who had one good year and offers absolutely nothing against the run?

Saleh knows Huff as well as anymore. If he thought Huff truly was special, the Jets would have re-signed him. They wouldn't have let him leave in free agency. I'm guessing Saleh realized Huff probably never would replicate the success he had in his contract year. And I'm guessing the Eagles recently came to the same realization.

Unfortunately for the Eagles, they realized too late, and now they're probably stuck with him.

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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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