Like taxes and death, every offseason you come to expect the “San Francisco 49ers will release Ahmad Brooks” rumors will come to fruition, then the one year you don’t think it’s going to happen, the 49ers go ahead and do it.
And if there ever was a good year for them to do it, it’s this year.
Is Brooks a good linebacker? You bet. Aside from his boneheaded penalties, he was a force to be reckoned with, a hammer on the field, Drew Brees’s kryptonite. But although he has stellar play, he’s simply not needed this year.