The 49ers have traded three-time first-team All-Pro punter Andy Lee to the Cleveland Browns for a seventh-round draft pick in 2017, according to Adam Schefter.
Lee (32) was the eighth best punter in the NFL last season according to Pro Football Focus. The 49ers were scheduled to pay Lee $2.55 million in 2015 before they traded him to Cleveland.
The Niners’ new punter is rookie fifth-round draft pick Bradley Pinion. He probably will kick kickoffs as well, because he has a tremendously strong leg and 40-year-old kicker Phil Dawson does not.