As of writing, the 49ers have a little more than $8 million in cap space per Over the Cap as we head into the offseason. There isn’t a player on the roster the team could release to save a bunch of money, as has been the case in previous years.
But that doesn’t mean San Francisco won’t find ways to get creative with the salary cap. There are a few players on the team that have contracts where the team could either extend or restructure. So let’s go over a big one, both figuratively and literally.