Free Agency Preview - San Francisco 49ers
In an ideal world where money doesn't matter and salary caps don't exist, the 49ers would probably try and sign a big named free agent wide receiver like Greg Jennings, Danny Amendola or Mike Wallace.
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In an ideal world where money doesn't matter and salary caps don't exist, the 49ers would probably try and sign a big named free agent wide receiver like Greg Jennings, Danny Amendola or Mike Wallace.
The San Francisco 49ers are expected to release kicker David Akers before free agency begins March 12, per a source.
Randy Moss still isn't exactly sure what he will do in the immediate future, and neither are his former 49ers teammates. One thing is certain, Moss' days with the 49ers seem to be over.
As it stands, the team that came a few plays from winning the Super Bowl, the San Francisco 49ers, and a team that came a half of football away from reaching the Super Bowl, the New England Patriots, stand in position as already elite franchises that enjoy a sudden luxury of excess in terms of draft picks and/or cap space.
It's been nearly a month since the Baltimore Ravens outlasted the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII. And while most of the NFL is looking ahead to free agency and the draft, at least two players from the big game are still reveling in what was and reeling from what could've been.
The 49ers will reportedly get a high second round draft choice this year and a conditional third round choice next year in a trade for backup quarterback Alex Smith to the Kansas City Chiefs.
A sideline iPad app will help coaches and trainers determine if players have suffered a concussion in NFL games next season.
Alex Smith's eight-year run with the team that drafted him as the first overall pick in 2005 appears to be over after multiple reports of a trade between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs.
The San Francisco 49ers will trade Alex Smith, and, according to league sources, the deal has effectively already been agreed to. No trades can be official until the league year begins March 12.
San Francisco 49ers offensive lineman Al Netter was arrested for DUI, according to the Santa Rose Press Democrat. Netter spent the 2012 season on the 49ers practice squad.
The San Francisco 49ers have a decision to make. What to do with quarterback Alex Smith? General manager Trent Baalke said they're not sure.
The NFL won't call it the Jim Harbaugh Rule, but it might as well. The San Francisco head coach is one of those the league's competition committee has in mind when it took action to keep coaches from wandering onto the field.
Short of the New England Patriots, Green Bay Packers and New Orleans Saints—teams that employ quarterbacks with proven track records who have a handful of productive years ahead of them—the San Francisco 49ers just might have the best quarterback situation in the entire NFL.
