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Will the 49ers Trade for Miami Dolphins Cornerback Jalen Ramsey?

The 49ers' Super Bowl is closed. If they play their cards right this year, it will open up again next year.
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Sep 8, 2024; Miami Gardens, Florida, USA; Miami Dolphins cornerback Jalen Ramsey (5) runs onto the field before the game against the Jacksonville Jaguars at Hard Rock Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sam Navarro-Imagn Images
Sep 8, 2024; Miami Gardens, Florida, USA; Miami Dolphins cornerback Jalen Ramsey (5) runs onto the field before the game against the Jacksonville Jaguars at Hard Rock Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sam Navarro-Imagn Images | Sam Navarro-Imagn Images

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The 49ers need a cornerback and an elite one just became available. Will the 49ers trade for him?

Jalen Ramsey and the Miami Dolphins have mutually agreed to pursue a trade according to The NFL Network's Ian Rapoport. Ramsey would be the perfect replacement for Charvarius Ward, who signed with the Indianapolis Colts earlier this offseason.

Ramsey, 30, started his career in 2016 on the Jaguars. That season, Robert Saleh was an assistant coach for Jacksonville's defense and Gus Bradley was their head coach. Now, Saleh is the 49ers' defensive coordinator and Bradley is their assistant head coach. So they have a relationship with Ramsey, which means Ramsey might want to play for them again.

Meanwhile, the 49ers let nine free agents walk this offseason because they're trying to get younger and cheaper. That means trading for Ramsey wouldn't necessarily help them achieve their goals. Unless they trade an even older, more expensive veteran for him.

The Dolphins just lost their left tackle, Terron Armstead, who recently announced his retirement. The 49ers have Trent Williams. They could trade him to the Dolphins for Jalen Ramsey and the two teams could finalize the deal after June 1 to make the money work.

Why would the 49ers trade Williams? Perhaps because they're in position to draft his heir apparent for the first time in years. Or, perhaps Williams would like a trade. Maybe he doesn't want any part of the 49ers' mini-rebuild this season. I'm just throwing out possibilities.

The 49ers' Super Bowl is closed. If they play their cards right this year, it will open up again next year.

Trading Williams for Ramsey would be a good start.

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Grant Cohn
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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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