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49ers Acquire Bryce Huff from Eagles for Conditional Fifth Rounder

And if he's not effective, he'll be gone by next year.
Grant Cohn|
Dec 29, 2024; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Bryce Huff (0) is blocked by Dallas Cowboys offensive tackle Terence Steele (78) tas he tries to rush the quarterback at Lincoln Financial Field. Mandatory Credit: Eric Hartline-Imagn Images
Dec 29, 2024; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Bryce Huff (0) is blocked by Dallas Cowboys offensive tackle Terence Steele (78) tas he tries to rush the quarterback at Lincoln Financial Field. Mandatory Credit: Eric Hartline-Imagn Images | Eric Hartline-Imagn Images

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Pending a physical, the 49ers will acquire defensive end Bryce Huff from the Philadelphia Eagles in exchange for a conditional fifth-round draft pick that could become a fourth-rounder depending on Huff's performance according to CBS Sports' Jonathan Jones. This indicates that the Eagles think Huff has a legitimate chance to turn his career around on the 49ers.

It also indicates how desperately they wanted to unload Huff and his contract. Just a year ago, the Eagles signed Huff to a three-year, $51 million deal. He was so bad for them, they're paying more than half of his salary this season for him to play for the 49ers. That's the only way the 49ers would agree to give them a conditional fifth-rounder. The Eagles are on the hook for more than $9 million in 2025.

Huff had 10 sacks on the Jets in 2023 when his head coach was Robert Saleh who currently is the 49ers defensive coordinator. On the Eagles, he played outside linebacker which is not his best position. On the 49ers, he will play Wide 9 defensive end which is where he's most effective.

In Huff's five-season career, he has started just 13 games. That's because he's a liability against the run. So if he does not create pressure on the quarterback, he's useless. Do not expect him to start for the 49ers. Instead, expect him to play on third downs or in the fourth quarter when the 49ers have a lead and the opponent is trying to come back by passing the ball.

And if he's not effective, he'll be gone by next year.

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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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