Originally posted by dj43:
Things will heat up in late August. Obviously, the 49ers are hoping at least two teams will have enough interest in him to make a trade rather than take a chance on FA hoping he chooses them (Commanders?). All it takes is one other team to show interest to yield a draft pick. That is the scenario I see happening.
I just don't see it happening. No team is gonna give up anything for him and take a chance of him not showing up at all. Even if they are able to contact him and he approves to get traded to team X and sign a new contract, can he be trusted?
Also, by end of Aug, teams already have their players in place and depth chart, so once again hard to see a trade happening. He will get cut when the FO wants to cut him. After that, he's gonna have little options available and I doubt he gets a meaningful contract. If I had to bet, it will be a 1 year deal with no guaranteed money.