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

Originally posted by the_dynasty:

Originally posted by 9NERNATE:
This is great. Would love to sign a few FA's as there are definitely some still available that can help us this year.

I feel like they will roll most of it over or use it for extensions if they give any (Jauan mostly, maybe McKivitz ?)

Yes that's what I'm assuming will happen, possible in season extensions for Jauan and/or McKivitz, but have to see what they would want money wise, needs to make financial sense, need to pay less for McKivitz than what Jaylon Moore got.

Also updated cap room is $49,638,279 after the release of Wishnowsky, have the 49ers at $31,257,477 in cap room in 2026 on an $305M cap, without carryover, so should/could have as much as $70M in cap room with carryover in 2026, depends on how the roster looks when the season begins & ends, $5M will be set aside for emergencies, all teams do this, and they'll have to pay their PS as high as $4.716M.

Originally posted by AB81Rules:
Yes that's what I'm assuming will happen, possible in season extensions for Jauan and/or McKivitz, but have to see what they would want money wise, needs to make financial sense, need to pay less for McKivitz than what Jaylon Moore got.

Also updated cap room is $49,638,279 after the release of Wishnowsky, have the 49ers at $31,257,477 in cap room in 2026 on an $305M cap, without carryover, so should/could have as much as $70M in cap room with carryover in 2026, depends on how the roster looks when the season begins & ends, $5M will be set aside for emergencies, all teams do this, and they'll have to pay their PS as high as $4.716M.

Seems unlikely McKivitz will get less than Moore.

I wonder what the downside it to moving guaranteed money forward into this year is?

Originally posted by AB81Rules:

Originally posted by the_dynasty:

Originally posted by 9NERNATE:
This is great. Would love to sign a few FA's as there are definitely some still available that can help us this year.

I feel like they will roll most of it over or use it for extensions if they give any (Jauan mostly, maybe McKivitz ?)

Yes that's what I'm assuming will happen, possible in season extensions for Jauan and/or McKivitz, but have to see what they would want money wise, needs to make financial sense, need to pay less for McKivitz than what Jaylon Moore got.

Also updated cap room is $49,638,279 after the release of Wishnowsky, have the 49ers at $31,257,477 in cap room in 2026 on an $305M cap, without carryover, so should/could have as much as $70M in cap room with carryover in 2026, depends on how the roster looks when the season begins & ends, $5M will be set aside for emergencies, all teams do this, and they'll have to pay their PS as high as $4.716M.

Love what the 49ers are doing & we are set up to pick up a player who might be released b4 the season or be able to make an in season trade for a run in the playoffs w/o it killing the team

What is the present state of things here?

Originally posted by 49er-from-Yavin-IV:
What is the present state of things here?

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/san-francisco-49ers/overview

Originally posted by AB81Rules:

Originally posted by the_dynasty:

Originally posted by 9NERNATE:
This is great. Would love to sign a few FA's as there are definitely some still available that can help us this year.

I feel like they will roll most of it over or use it for extensions if they give any (Jauan mostly, maybe McKivitz ?)

Yes that's what I'm assuming will happen, possible in season extensions for Jauan and/or McKivitz, but have to see what they would want money wise, needs to make financial sense, need to pay less for McKivitz than what Jaylon Moore got.

Also updated cap room is $49,638,279 after the release of Wishnowsky, have the 49ers at $31,257,477 in cap room in 2026 on an $305M cap, without carryover, so should/could have as much as $70M in cap room with carryover in 2026, depends on how the roster looks when the season begins & ends, $5M will be set aside for emergencies, all teams do this, and they'll have to pay their PS as high as $4.716M.

I think it was Kruger in his YouTube that said between the $49mil in cap space plus $90mil in dead cap space, we are only spending about half of the 270mil salary cap for this year.
Not sure what the long term plan is but hopefully that means better FAs signings in 2026

Originally posted by mitpdub:

Originally posted by AB81Rules:

Originally posted by the_dynasty:

Originally posted by 9NERNATE:
This is great. Would love to sign a few FA's as there are definitely some still available that can help us this year.

I feel like they will roll most of it over or use it for extensions if they give any (Jauan mostly, maybe McKivitz ?)

Yes that's what I'm assuming will happen, possible in season extensions for Jauan and/or McKivitz, but have to see what they would want money wise, needs to make financial sense, need to pay less for McKivitz than what Jaylon Moore got.

Also updated cap room is $49,638,279 after the release of Wishnowsky, have the 49ers at $31,257,477 in cap room in 2026 on an $305M cap, without carryover, so should/could have as much as $70M in cap room with carryover in 2026, depends on how the roster looks when the season begins & ends, $5M will be set aside for emergencies, all teams do this, and they'll have to pay their PS as high as $4.716M.

I think it was Kruger in his YouTube that said between the $49mil in cap space plus $90mil in dead cap space, we are only spending about half of the 270mil salary cap for this year.
Not sure what the long term plan is but hopefully that means better FAs signings in 2026

$212M on players this year plus the $97M dead money and they are spending $308M which is the 2nd most in the NFL. The cap space rolls over for next year when Bosa, Purdy, Kittle, and Warner alone are $100M. Next year Robinson, Juice, Moore, Jennings, McKivitz, Bartch, YGM, Elliot, Givens, Davis, and Pinnock are all significant free agents. Huff and Winters will be up for extensions. None of those are likely to be HUGE deals, but them plus a couple decent free agent pickups to fill roster holes and a good draft would be a good off-season. I think the 49ers would rather lose decent vets to get the comp picks than pay them.

Originally posted by Scoots:
$212M on players this year plus the $97M dead money and they are spending $308M which is the 2nd most in the NFL. The cap space rolls over for next year when Bosa, Purdy, Kittle, and Warner alone are $100M. Next year Robinson, Juice, Moore, Jennings, McKivitz, Bartch, YGM, Elliot, Givens, Davis, and Pinnock are all significant free agents. Huff and Winters will be up for extensions. None of those are likely to be HUGE deals, but them plus a couple decent free agent pickups to fill roster holes and a good draft would be a good off-season. I think the 49ers would rather lose decent vets to get the comp picks than pay them.

We do have a projected $105m in space + whatever we roll over + whatever the cap increases.

Certainly Bosa will be reworked rather than count $42m. Seems like we're in relatively good shape

Originally posted by Scoots:

Originally posted by mitpdub:

Originally posted by AB81Rules:

Originally posted by the_dynasty:

Originally posted by 9NERNATE:
This is great. Would love to sign a few FA's as there are definitely some still available that can help us this year.

I feel like they will roll most of it over or use it for extensions if they give any (Jauan mostly, maybe McKivitz ?)

Yes that's what I'm assuming will happen, possible in season extensions for Jauan and/or McKivitz, but have to see what they would want money wise, needs to make financial sense, need to pay less for McKivitz than what Jaylon Moore got.

Also updated cap room is $49,638,279 after the release of Wishnowsky, have the 49ers at $31,257,477 in cap room in 2026 on an $305M cap, without carryover, so should/could have as much as $70M in cap room with carryover in 2026, depends on how the roster looks when the season begins & ends, $5M will be set aside for emergencies, all teams do this, and they'll have to pay their PS as high as $4.716M.

I think it was Kruger in his YouTube that said between the $49mil in cap space plus $90mil in dead cap space, we are only spending about half of the 270mil salary cap for this year.
Not sure what the long term plan is but hopefully that means better FAs signings in 2026

$212M on players this year plus the $97M dead money and they are spending $308M which is the 2nd most in the NFL. The cap space rolls over for next year when Bosa, Purdy, Kittle, and Warner alone are $100M. Next year Robinson, Juice, Moore, Jennings, McKivitz, Bartch, YGM, Elliot, Givens, Davis, and Pinnock are all significant free agents. Huff and Winters will be up for extensions. None of those are likely to be HUGE deals, but them plus a couple decent free agent pickups to fill roster holes and a good draft would be a good off-season. I think the 49ers would rather lose decent vets to get the comp picks than pay them.

I think what a lot of people don't fully understand ( including me !) is what dead cap space is

I think it's the accelerated signing bonuses and guaranteed money we owe(d) to players that are no longer with the team, like Dee Ford, Hargrave to name notables. Is all of that dead cap paid money, or are some non guaranteed pay that we are self imposing as a penalty against ourselves, but in reality saving in actual dollars?

Originally posted by frenchmov:

Originally posted by Scoots:
$212M on players this year plus the $97M dead money and they are spending $308M which is the 2nd most in the NFL. The cap space rolls over for next year when Bosa, Purdy, Kittle, and Warner alone are $100M. Next year Robinson, Juice, Moore, Jennings, McKivitz, Bartch, YGM, Elliot, Givens, Davis, and Pinnock are all significant free agents. Huff and Winters will be up for extensions. None of those are likely to be HUGE deals, but them plus a couple decent free agent pickups to fill roster holes and a good draft would be a good off-season. I think the 49ers would rather lose decent vets to get the comp picks than pay them.

We do have a projected $105m in space + whatever we roll over + whatever the cap increases.

Certainly Bosa will be reworked rather than count $42m. Seems like we're in relatively good shape

The $105M might include the roll over. I think the last projection I saw had the cap next year under $300M.

Like $19M of Bosa's money is pro-rated money already paid to him and I don't know if it can be moved around. Part of the reason for them to move cap space to next year might be to just pay him that money. I think they want to reduce the amount of void year money they keep pushing out there.

I think they are in good shape and this year is the payment to get from heading down a bad path to being healthy under the cap. In the next 2 years I think they hope some of the current cheap options become stars they have to pay.

Originally posted by mitpdub:
I think what a lot of people don't fully understand ( including me !) is what dead cap space is

I think it's the accelerated signing bonuses and guaranteed money we owe(d) to players that are no longer with the team, like Dee Ford, Hargrave to name notables. Is all of that dead cap paid money, or are some non guaranteed pay that we are self imposing as a penalty against ourselves, but in reality saving in actual dollars?

It's basically money they owe that was either already paid out but pro-rated over the length of the contract, or guaranteed future money. They accelerate into the cap based on rules.

Like Aiyuk is getting <$10M this year against the cap, but if they had cut him before the season stared it would have accelerated something close to $80M into this year. They will pay him ~$15M next year, but then they can cut him before 2027 and save something like $80M but take a $25M dead money hit. I assume, unless Aiyuk becomes the best WR in the NFL he will either re-negotiate his deal to be cheaper per year for more years or get cut before the big bills come through.

That's a quick estimation, but it's the general idea, and this stuff is all factored in to contract negotiations.

Originally posted by Scoots:
$212M on players this year plus the $97M dead money and they are spending $308M which is the 2nd most in the NFL. The cap space rolls over for next year when Bosa, Purdy, Kittle, and Warner alone are $100M. Next year Robinson, Juice, Moore, Jennings, McKivitz, Bartch, YGM, Elliot, Givens, Davis, and Pinnock are all significant free agents. Huff and Winters will be up for extensions. None of those are likely to be HUGE deals, but them plus a couple decent free agent pickups to fill roster holes and a good draft would be a good off-season. I think the 49ers would rather lose decent vets to get the comp picks than pay them.

Juice is signed for 2026, Idk if I'd say all of them are significant FAs, I doubt it'd take much to retain guys like Elliott, & Givens, they have Collins, West, & Jefferson signed for 2026, plus Kalia Davis is actually a RFA since he spent his rookie year on NFI, really the biggest FAs would be Jauan, Bartch, Burford, McKivitz, & Gross-Matos, I'd include Pinnock if he does really good this year, I'd look at retaining, barring what happens in 2025, Skyy Moore, Brian Robinson Jr.., & Jason Pinnock, unless Jauan gets a new deal before his current one voids then he could be back, but if no deal, then he leaves $8.21M in dead money for 2026, I don't see anyway at all Burford & McKivitz are back, neither will get deals with us the size of what other teams will offer, the one I'm most confident retaining is Bartch, not sure on Gross-Matos, I'm 50/50 on him.

As for extensions, Huff is signed through 2026, Winters if he does well should get a decent sized deal, nothing crazy, not Greenlaw money, idk what Huff would want/command, but all of this is way way too early to think about, but I will say don't be shocked if Bosa asks for a new deal in 2026, which wouldn't be the worst thing, lowering his 2026 & 2027 base salaries would save the team significant cap room for both years, like Kittle & Warner's deals did this year, like CMC & Trent did in 2024.

I do think the 49ers prefer to build through the draft, not in free agency, the majority of these big deals given out in FA week 1 end up being bad deals for the teams, so I'd rather let guys like McKivitz, Burford, & Jennings go, as they'll all get good sized offers elsewhere, most likely as I said to return are Bartch, Pinnock, Moore, Robinson, & maybe Gross-Matos.

AB, I am a huge fan of the BRob trade. Assuming he is a great red zone add, has decent rushing and receiving numbers….what is he going to cost to resign?

With all moves. made, I have the 49ers $26,988,068 under their adjusted salary cap for 2025.

Originally posted by kirkscrafford:
AB, I am a huge fan of the BRob trade. Assuming he is a great red zone add, has decent rushing and receiving numbers….what is he going to cost to resign?

Tough to say, I'd think at least what Jordan Mason got from Minnesota, which was $5.25M a year on a 2yr deal, so something around that, maybe $5.5M a yr, depends on how he does this year, he's had success in the past, hoping it's not a 1yr rental, same for Skyy Moore, especially if Jauan ends up leaving in March 2026.