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The 49ers Could Sign Jets Linebacker Jamien Sherwood this Offseason

Pro Football Focus estimates that Sherwood will sign a two-year, $15.5 million deal this offseason. Sounds like a bargain for a three-down linebacker who's just entering his prime.
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Oct 6, 2024; Tottenham, ENG; New York Jets Linebacker Jamien Sherwood (44) in the 4th Quarter against Minnesota Vikings at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Shaun Brooks-Imagn Images
Oct 6, 2024; Tottenham, ENG; New York Jets Linebacker Jamien Sherwood (44) in the 4th Quarter against Minnesota Vikings at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Shaun Brooks-Imagn Images | Shaun Brooks-Imagn Images

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Dre Greenlaw might not be the 49ers' top choice at linebacker during free agency.

Jets linebacker Jamien Sherwood will be a free agent and he has ties to 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh as well. That's because Saleh drafted Sherwood and developed him in New York.

Now, ESPN's Jeremy Fowler is hearing that the 49ers could try to sign Sherwood this offseason.

"Three different personnel evaluators brought up Sherwood to me unprompted when discussing the free agency class," writes Fowler. "Watch for Atlanta, which features a lot of former Jets staffing, or San Francisco, where former Jets coach Robert Saleh now runs the defense."

Sherwood is only 25 years old and hasn't missed a game in the past three seasons since he tore his Achilles as a rookie. Greenlaw will be 28 in May and played just 34 snaps this season after tearing his Achilles in the Super Bowl.

Which means Sherwood could be the smarter investment. This season, he became a full-time starter for the first time in his career and led the league with 98 solo tackles. Here's what Pro Football Focus thinks of him:

"Sherwood burst onto the scene in a full-time role as injuries continued to hamper veteran C.J. Mosley, with a similar hair-on-fire playing style to fellow Jets linebacker Quincy Williams. Sherwood's emergence as a safety-to-linebacker convert was a rare bright spot in a disappointing year for the team from top to bottom. If the presumed departure and/or retirement of Mosley comes to fruition, perhaps Sherwood can stick around heading into 2025."

Pro Football Focus estimates that Sherwood will sign a two-year, $15.5 million deal this offseason. Sounds like a bargain for a three-down linebacker who's just entering his prime.

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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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