The 49ers have guaranteed half of Trent Williams‘ salary for the 2020 season, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL.com (on Twitter). The two sides agreed to rework his deal earlier in the offseason, but the terms were now previously known. On Friday, Williams formally inked the deal and passed his physical, making it all officially official. 
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As Williams demanded a trade, he also demanded a new deal from whatever team acquired him. But, when the 49ers got serious with the Redskins, Williams had a change of heart. The deal went down towards the tail end of draft weekend and was not accompanied by a multi-year extension.
After Williams put his extension request on the back burner, the 49ers locked in 50% of his $12.5MM in base salary. Before, that sum was completely non-guaranteed.
The multiple-time Pro Bowler will take over for SF legend Joe Staley, who kept his retirement plans on the hush until the Niners landed Williams to replace him. Now, he’ll look to get back to his old form, secure another big pay day, and play for a championship in SF.
Williams, 32 in July, ggraded out as Pro Football Focus’ best tackle in the NFL in 2016. He’s missed a combined 29 games over the past four seasons, but he still profiles as one of the league’s most talented and accomplished linemen.
Good luck Trent and thanks for the years. I’m also fed up w/ D Synder as well.
The Alex Smith injury was devastating to the Redskins and Snyder can’t be blamed for that. Ron Rivera is a great choice to lead this team back from the wilderness so there is reason to be optimistic.
That front seven is stacked: Young, Sweat, Ioannidas, Allen, Payne, and Kerrigan is quite a handful. However, the key to a successful rebuild will be revamping the offense. The left side of the offensive line is dreadful, while Haskins has nobody to throw to. When Jeremy Sprinkle is your best option at tight end, that’s a problem
McLaurin is going to be a superstar and I think Sims Jr is going to be a good weapon for them. Gandy-Golden has a chance to be good too. I wouldn’t sleep on the WRs even though they are young.
I’m not sleeping on them, but it’s going to take some time to develop this group. McLaurin is the only sure thing in my mind. Sims looks like a gadget player, while Gandy-Golden is still raw and comes from a division II school. They could certainly use a veteran body
Hi Zach,
Can you please fix the spellng of “ggraded? Thanks!
Williams, 32 in July, ‘ggraded” out as Pro Football Focus’ best tackle in the NFL in 2016.
Also:
The two sides agreed to rework his deal earlier in the offseason, but the terms were now previously known.
Believe it should be not instead of now. Simply copy editing can go a long way. The expansion sites have a chance to be as popular as baseball rumors if they put the same amount of work into them.
Josip and Brandon, if you’re gonna criticize, at least now how to utilize quotation marks. Josip but butchered his use of them and Brandon ignored them.
Better yet, quit whining.
*know how.
See how easy it is to make mistakes
The difference is that commenters aren’t paid to publish articles. All it takes is reading the article before hitting publish/post. That’s a basic function of writing.
The difference is who cares?