Trey Lance hasn't played for the 49ers in almost a year, and yet he's still one of the most expensive players on the team. The 49ers traded Lance after June 1 last year, so they took some of their dead cap hit in 2023 and will take the rest in 2024.
Trey Lance hasn't played for the 49ers in almost a year, and yet he's still one of the most expensive players on the team.
The 49ers traded Lance after June 1 last year, so they took some of their dead cap hit in 2023 and will take the rest in 2024. Which means this year, Lance still takes upof the 49ers' salary cap space. Only 12 players have higher cap hits on the 49ers this year, and Brock Purdy isn't one of them. Meanwhile, Lance's cap hit on the Cowboys, his current team, isLance may turn out to be the Cowboys' next franchise quarterback -- we don't know what the future holds for him.
In hindsight, they could have had Penei Sewell or Ja'Marr Chase, two of the best players in the NFL, with the pick they used to take Lance. But they told themselves they had to take a quarterback because good ones are difficult to find late in the draft.If the 49ers had drafted someone worth of the no. 3 pick, someone other than Lance, they might have won a Super Bowl by now.Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011.
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