Although this may be news to Trent Baalke and the San Francisco 49ers’ front office, the free agency period has started. Most of the top free agents have been signed by this point, with a few notable exceptions, including Nick Fairly, Evan Mathis, Kelvin Beachum and Donald Penn.
There is an argument to be made for not overspending in free agency, of course, especially for a team in the middle of a rebuild—rather than weighing down the team with expensive contracts and guaranteed money, you can build through cheaper players with more potential via the draft—but this is taking it to an extreme.