The draft is done. Free agency seems like years ago in this quarantined offseason.
Once the season hopefully comes and goes, the 49ers have a slew of contracts expiring in 2021. Let’s survey the payroll:
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George Kittle
2020 salary: $2.1 million
Last season’s First-Team All-Pro will command the richest contract ever for a tight end. Even the 49ers acknowledge this. Not much urgency exists to get a deal done, although they’ve already taken a crack at it, general manager John Lynch said Thursday on 95.7 The Game.
“They’ve got motivation to really reset the tight end market, as do we for him, and it’s just finding that sweet spot where that is,” Lynch said.