Does the salary cap actually exist for the 49ers? Their big-ticket signings have grabbed plenty of headlines over the last couple of years, but they’ve never managed to run into serious cap problems. That’s due to good cap management, and a reliance on key players either on rookie deals or outperforming cheap free agent contracts.
At some point they’ll have to make hard decisions, like not re-signing Mike McGlinchey or figuring out how to fit Deebo Samuel and Brandon Aiyuk into the receiving corps once Aiyuk is up for an extension.
