49ers 2026 Salary Cap Thread, 2026 Cap Room=$46,322,300 as of 1/26/26 on a $305M cap

Originally posted by NCommand:

Originally posted by AB81Rules:

Originally posted by NCommand:
Guess you can still buy a Superbowl, even in this era.

They got it handed to them with that BS holding call on the LB(Wilson), he didn't hold him, should have been 4th down.

Same stuff happened in our 2 Superbowl losses.

But as to roster construction, now we know, you can build like the Bengals or buy like the Rams and win it.

We're close. Do ShanaLynch want it? We'll find out soon.

I'm gonna stick with what the 49ers have done, build through the draft, supplement through free agency, they have to extend Bosa & Deebo this offseason, extend Aiyuk next offseason, plus they have key FAs they should or need to try to sign, they won't have cap room to go out & add many FAs, at least not high priced FAs, which are almost surely an overpay, & the player never lives up to the hype.

Again, I refuse to mortgage the future by bringing older vets, giving up premium picks or restructuring every contract cause it will catch up to you, look at NO, GB, DAL, & others are way over the cap, and they leave in FA.

Also, just because the Rams did this, in your eyes, by paying for it, there are many examples of teams who go all in by signing high priced FAs or trading picks, so, it can go either way, you can win both ways, let teams overpay FAs & trade their future away, they'll end up out of a job within a few years, if not the next.

Rams didn't even mortgage thier future....they have the best defensive and offensive player for another 3 years..and a legit qb...I'd gladly give up whatever they did for Miller and obj to get a SB.

49ers 14 to 1 Odds to win it all according to vegas.

Originally posted by NinerGM:

Originally posted by lamontb:
Rams didn't even mortgage thier future....they have the best defensive and offensive player for another 3 years..and a legit qb...I'd gladly give up whatever they did for Miller and obj to get a SB.

This. Mortgaging the far future? Yes, but not the short-term. They're looking to buy a small SB window of 3 years. I like those odds. I think it's harder and harder to have dynasties anymore because parity, health and season length seem to stifle extreme longevity with window. Play with the odds, put together a draft-picks-be-damned 3-year team and if you win in that window, it's completely worth it.

I'm all for adding key pieces just as long as we don't have to borrow cap room from future years. If we could get a older player at a reasonable price, then I'm all for it.

Latest article, https://49erscap.com/index.php/2022/02/13/an-updated-look-at-the-49ers-2022-salary-cap-situation-another-deep-look-at-the-49ers-2023-salary-cap-situation/, unless we a s**t load of credits, we're going to have too redo 1 or 2 deals as we need to be cap compliant with Jimmy's $26.95m cap hit. That's why I say the team needs to be smart with what they do, they can't lock up Deebo, Bosa, keep FAs & the pipe dream of Brady after June 1.

Originally posted by AB81Rules:

Originally posted by NCommand:
Guess you can still buy a Superbowl, even in this era.

They got it handed to them with that BS holding call on the LB(Wilson), he didn't hold him, should have been 4th down.

Yup. Per the rules, you are allowed to put your hands on a wr in a trailing position as long as you don't impede the receivers progress or re direct the receiver which he did neither. So pathetic. There has to be challenges for calls for each team like the pass interference challenges. This will take the refs right out of the game. It needs to be done

Originally posted by elguapo:

Originally posted by AB81Rules:

Originally posted by NCommand:
Guess you can still buy a Superbowl, even in this era.

They got it handed to them with that BS holding call on the LB(Wilson), he didn't hold him, should have been 4th down.

Yup. Per the rules, you are allowed to put your hands on a wr in a trailing position as long as you don't impede the receivers progress or re direct the receiver which he did neither. So pathetic. There has to be challenges for calls for each team like the pass interference challenges. This will take the refs right out of the game. It needs to be done

why would goodell want to take the game out of his hands?

Originally posted by NinerGM:

Originally posted by AB81Rules:

Originally posted by NinerGM:

Originally posted by lamontb:
Rams didn't even mortgage thier future....they have the best defensive and offensive player for another 3 years..and a legit qb...I'd gladly give up whatever they did for Miller and obj to get a SB.

This. Mortgaging the far future? Yes, but not the short-term. They're looking to buy a small SB window of 3 years. I like those odds. I think it's harder and harder to have dynasties anymore because parity, health and season length seem to stifle extreme longevity with window. Play with the odds, put together a draft-picks-be-damned 3-year team and if you win in that window, it's completely worth it.

I'm all for adding key pieces just as long as we don't have to borrow cap room from future years. If we could get a older player at a reasonable price, then I'm all for it.

Latest article, https://49erscap.com/index.php/2022/02/13/an-updated-look-at-the-49ers-2022-salary-cap-situation-another-deep-look-at-the-49ers-2023-salary-cap-situation/, unless we a s**t load of credits, we're going to have too redo 1 or 2 deals as we need to be cap compliant with Jimmy's $26.95m cap hit. That's why I say the team needs to be smart with what they do, they can't lock up Deebo, Bosa, keep FAs & the pipe dream of Brady after June 1.

Unfortunately this has been the core of our strategy and that's what's kept us tops on the injury list. Mack was one of the few older players we've signed that actually worked out and even he had issues as he's been waning a bit. I think planning and saving for a future that may or may not create the ideal team just doesn't seem like the only way to build a champion to me. I think we're going to have to take bigger bets on prime talent if we want to to win a championship. We'll never be able to afford everyone anyway and each that passes with failure, you have start all over with certain positions that need new blood. So I can understand knowing that end is coming, embrace and build a 3-year squad. Now that clubs are willing to let vet QBs go as FAs as they seem to have more power, you're going to see even more of the Rams strategy but it's not easy. You need as much smarts to pull off what they did versus what/where we are. I'm not saying it's the only way, I'm just saying the Rams proved their approach is valid given the results - all season long.

It's not any kind of a severe mortgage for them anymore having one of the top top 3 qb's in the league. Kyle is screwed and he knows it. We aren't winning a sb next year with a rookie+, in his first full season. I'm po'd as much as anyone but Mcvay has started the process of complety punking Bananahands.

Originally posted by socal1632:
It's not any kind of a severe mortgage for them anymore having one of the top top 3 qb's in the league. Kyle is screwed and he knows it. We aren't winning a sb next year with a rookie+, in his first full season. I'm po'd as much as anyone but Mcvay has started the process of complety punking Bananahands.

LOL at Stafford being one of the top 3 QB's in the league. And Mcvay won't be around much longer to punk anybody. He's going to jump ship like a coward in the next 2 or 3 years.

Originally posted by AB81Rules:
I'm all for adding key pieces just as long as we don't have to borrow cap room from future years. If we could get a older player at a reasonable price, then I'm all for it.

Latest article, https://49erscap.com/index.php/2022/02/13/an-updated-look-at-the-49ers-2022-salary-cap-situation-another-deep-look-at-the-49ers-2023-salary-cap-situation/, unless we a s**t load of credits, we're going to have too redo 1 or 2 deals as we need to be cap compliant with Jimmy's $26.95m cap hit. That's why I say the team needs to be smart with what they do, they can't lock up Deebo, Bosa, keep FAs & the pipe dream of Brady after June 1.

Hey AB, appreciate everything you do for these breakdowns. I know you don't fully breakdown other teams and I'm not sure if you've talked about this but how does LA manage to do what they do? Shouldn't they have to rebuild in the next year or 2?

Originally posted by AB81Rules:

Originally posted by NCommand:

Originally posted by AB81Rules:

Originally posted by NCommand:
Guess you can still buy a Superbowl, even in this era.

They got it handed to them with that BS holding call on the LB(Wilson), he didn't hold him, should have been 4th down.

Same stuff happened in our 2 Superbowl losses.

But as to roster construction, now we know, you can build like the Bengals or buy like the Rams and win it.

We're close. Do ShanaLynch want it? We'll find out soon.

I'm gonna stick with what the 49ers have done, build through the draft, supplement through free agency, they have to extend Bosa & Deebo this offseason, extend Aiyuk next offseason, plus they have key FAs they should or need to try to sign, they won't have cap room to go out & add many FAs, at least not high priced FAs, which are almost surely an overpay, & the player never lives up to the hype.

Again, I refuse to mortgage the future by bringing older vets, giving up premium picks or restructuring every contract cause it will catch up to you, look at NO, GB, DAL, & others are way over the cap, and they leave in FA.

Also, just because the Rams did this, in your eyes, by paying for it, there are many examples of teams who go all in by signing high priced FAs or trading picks, so, it can go either way, you can win both ways, let teams overpay FAs & trade their future away, they'll end up out of a job within a few years, if not the next.

This was more of an exercise of proving multiple ways of building a team. An extreme form in today's salary cap landscape where annually, the LA Rams are in the playoffs and now, pushed that extreme even harder and won the Superbowl because of it. They did it.

Other teams have built mostly through the draft and that can work too.

I think we're on the Seahawks path to being a playoff contender annually but never really in the mix for a real Superbowl contender or favorite.

I think this FO is going to have to get out of their comfort level and make a few more key moves to put this team over the top. They've got the salary cap guy to do it and they have the ability, like everyone else in the NFCW, to make dynamic trades and think outside the box.

Staying the course no longer should be the mantra unless this FO just wants to remain competitive but not with the top teams who really are doing everything they can to win a Superbowl.

"I think this FO is going to have to get out of their comfort level and make a few more key moves to put this team over the top. They've got the salary cap guy to do it and they have the ability, like everyone else in the NFCW, to make dynamic trades and think outside the box."

Agree 100% NC....time to $#!T or get off the pot.

Originally posted by NCommand:

Originally posted by AB81Rules:

Originally posted by NCommand:

Originally posted by AB81Rules:

Originally posted by NCommand:
Guess you can still buy a Superbowl, even in this era.

They got it handed to them with that BS holding call on the LB(Wilson), he didn't hold him, should have been 4th down.

Same stuff happened in our 2 Superbowl losses.

But as to roster construction, now we know, you can build like the Bengals or buy like the Rams and win it.

We're close. Do ShanaLynch want it? We'll find out soon.

I'm gonna stick with what the 49ers have done, build through the draft, supplement through free agency, they have to extend Bosa & Deebo this offseason, extend Aiyuk next offseason, plus they have key FAs they should or need to try to sign, they won't have cap room to go out & add many FAs, at least not high priced FAs, which are almost surely an overpay, & the player never lives up to the hype.

Again, I refuse to mortgage the future by bringing older vets, giving up premium picks or restructuring every contract cause it will catch up to you, look at NO, GB, DAL, & others are way over the cap, and they leave in FA.

Also, just because the Rams did this, in your eyes, by paying for it, there are many examples of teams who go all in by signing high priced FAs or trading picks, so, it can go either way, you can win both ways, let teams overpay FAs & trade their future away, they'll end up out of a job within a few years, if not the next.

This was more of an exercise of proving multiple ways of building a team. An extreme form in today's salary cap landscape where annually, the LA Rams are in the playoffs and now, pushed that extreme even harder and won the Superbowl because of it. They did it.

Other teams have built mostly through the draft and that can work too.

I think we're on the Seahawks path to being a playoff contender annually but never really in the mix for a real Superbowl contender or favorite.

I think this FO is going to have to get out of their comfort level and make a few more key moves to put this team over the top. They've got the salary cap guy to do it and they have the ability, like everyone else in the NFCW, to make dynamic trades and think outside the box.

Staying the course no longer should be the mantra unless this FO just wants to remain competitive but not with the top teams who really are doing everything they can to win a Superbowl.

Dont depend on guys like Verrett and Ford alone would do wonders. Draft guys with clean bills of health would help too. It's not simply the brick by brick process. I'd say that has worked. They added great players. They, like the Rams, saw the problem at QB and upgraded. They just opted to wait a year which is fine by me because Jimmy is worth far more now than he would've been worth last year with all of the QBs available in the draft.

There's no issue with their approach besides making moves that work against them. Fortunately for them they do seem to learn. We haven't seen any Reuben Foster's or Solomon Thomas's with our picks. They prioritized health in draftees after 2020- save for the foolish choice to count on Verrett. You can't judge this stuff until a few years down the road. The Chiefs used our exact same approach. Which roster would you rather have, the Rams or Chiefs? Ditto for us and the Rams. Keep in mind, OBJ and Miller aren't under contract for next year.

Originally posted by JTB1974:

Originally posted by socal1632:
It's not any kind of a severe mortgage for them anymore having one of the top top 3 qb's in the league. Kyle is screwed and he knows it. We aren't winning a sb next year with a rookie+, in his first full season. I'm po'd as much as anyone but Mcvay has started the process of complety punking Bananahands.

LOL at Stafford being one of the top 3 QB's in the league. And Mcvay won't be around much longer to punk anybody. He's going to jump ship like a coward in the next 2 or 3 years.

Either he meant Brady or yeah Stafford isn't top 3, and the reason why we're trading Jimmy is to not have a QB making $25M+ a yr on the cap, so we can keep the players who've shown they're worth keeping(Bosa, Deebo, Aiyuk).

Updated my latest article, corrected things I was wrong on, numbers wise, I did this article too fast, didn't take the time to make sure it was good, https://49erscap.com/index.php/2022/02/13/an-updated-look-at-the-49ers-2022-salary-cap-situation-another-deep-look-at-the-49ers-2023-salary-cap-situation/

Originally posted by VA9erfan:
"I think this FO is going to have to get out of their comfort level and make a few more key moves to put this team over the top. They've got the salary cap guy to do it and they have the ability, like everyone else in the NFCW, to make dynamic trades and think outside the box."

Agree 100% NC....time to $#!T or get off the pot.

I agree, they need to get out of their comfort level, just learn from past mistakes, like paying McKinnon $30M over 4yrs, or Kwon 4yr $56M deal(though it worked out as he was good, plus came back from the injury, forget what it was, a torn pec?), I don't have an issue with the Richburg signing, at $9.5M a yr, it was a good signing, it sucks that he had that career ending injury, that IMO was not avoidable.

Originally posted by LifelongNiner:
Dont depend on guys like Verrett and Ford alone would do wonders. Draft guys with clean bills of health would help too. It's not simply the brick by brick process. I'd say that has worked. They added great players. They, like the Rams, saw the problem at QB and upgraded. They just opted to wait a year which is fine by me because Jimmy is worth far more now than he would've been worth last year with all of the QBs available in the draft.

There's no issue with their approach besides making moves that work against them. Fortunately for them they do seem to learn. We haven't seen any Reuben Foster's or Solomon Thomas's with our picks. They prioritized health in draftees after 2020- save for the foolish choice to count on Verrett. You can't judge this stuff until a few years down the road. The Chiefs used our exact same approach. Which roster would you rather have, the Rams or Chiefs? Ditto for us and the Rams. Keep in mind, OBJ and Miller aren't under contract for next year.

I'd rather have the Chiefs roster TBH, Mahomes, Hill, Hardman, Robinson, Thuney, Edwards-Helaire, Jones, etc.... And yes don't depend on Verrett or Ford, sign/draft guys who aren't injured, or have injury concerns, if it's a 1 time thing, then that's fine, 1 injury doesn't make you injury prone IMO.

Originally posted by DJamhour:
Hey AB, appreciate everything you do for these breakdowns. I know you don't fully breakdown other teams and I'm not sure if you've talked about this but how does LA manage to do what they do? Shouldn't they have to rebuild in the next year or 2?

The thing with the Rams, when it came to OBJ & Von, they didn't pay more than the minimum, OBJ's contract actually voids, they had to use void years, cause they didn't have cap room, & Von, the Broncos ate $7M to get a 2nd & 3rd. They don't have a 1st till 2024, like us, but they've gotten Ramsey(good deal, even though he's a punk), but some bad ones Brandin Cooks for a 1st, giving so much money to Gurley, which may have been the previous regime.