When the San Francisco 49ers elected not to pick up the contract option on pass-rusher Elvis Dumervil this offseason, I was surprised. I wrote about that fact, and in it I talked about Dumervil’s efficiency in a limited number of snaps. The 49ers used him sparingly, and he rewarded them with 6.5 sacks in 2017, most on the team despite him playing on just 30.31 percent of the team’s defensive snaps (341 total).
Dumervil’s cap hit for 2018 was set to be $4.25 million, and nothing I saw on tape led me to believe that he didn’t at least have another year of similar production in him.