Cap Strategy? Where do your devote your salary cap money

With success, the 49ers will have to make hard choices on who they pay and who they let go. Ignoring individual players, what areas of the team do you spend on, and what areas of the team do you let go? Here are my thoughts.

1. It is hard to find Pro Bowl players, so if you have one try to keep them regardless of position (this was Baalke's strategy). But when hard choices are necessary, value them by position group:
2. Positions groups to pay big money:
DL, OL, QB
We need to find a way to keep our entire starting line intact. We can let Solomon Thomas walk as he isn't playing that many snaps, but we definitely want to keep Arik Armstead.
3. Position Groups to pay little and let walk:
DB, RB, WR/TE
We definitely want to keep Kittle, but beyond that the rest are replaceable. With our monster pash rush, we don't need great CB/Safeties. As for offensive skill players, Kyle has shown that he can find highly productive players with lesser draft picks. If he can keep doing that, then there is no reason to pay the high prices that the players will command in the next few years. Although, I would love to see what Kyle could do with an elite RB...

Over invest in what makes you elite.

That's the DL.

Our resident Paraag, AB81Rules, puts together these cap summaries that I find to be very enlightening.

https://49erscap.com/index.php/2019/10/14/taking-a-look-at-the-49ers-salary-cap-situation-for-2020-and-beyond/

D-line

franchise tag Armstead.

Originally posted by Ensatsu:
franchise tag Armstead.

Yeah he's forcing our hand to use it on him.

I think our cap space ( or lack of cap space) has been way overblown. Cutting Goodwin, Mostert , McKinnon, Nzeocha and trading Solly will save about 17m- bringing the available cash to roughly 36m
Let's assume DBuck get an extension that cost 19m against the cap next year. That would only reduce the available space by 5m, as he is already on the 2020 books for better than 14m.
If the extension for George eats up 10m in additional space, That leaves 21m after the rookie pool and before restructuring Jimmy's deal.

Originally posted by fip24:

I think our cap space ( or lack of cap space) has been way overblown. Cutting Goodwin, Mostert , McKinnon, Nzeocha and trading Solly will save about 17m- bringing the available cash to roughly 36m
Let's assume DBuck get an extension that cost 19m against the cap next year. That would only reduce the available space by 5m, as he is already on the 2020 books for better than 14m.
If the extension for George eats up 10m in additional space, That leaves 21m after the rookie pool and before restructuring Jimmy's deal.

Sounds about right, restructuring Jimmys deal will free up how much more cap do you think ?

Originally posted by TyCore:

Our resident Paraag, AB81Rules, puts together these cap summaries that I find to be very enlightening.

https://49erscap.com/index.php/2019/10/14/taking-a-look-at-the-49ers-salary-cap-situation-for-2020-and-beyond/

This

I'm all for cutting who fip mentioned, resigning Sanders, Blair, Armstead, and Ward assuming he continues to stay healthy and play well, trading Pettis, and Solly..Paraag won't put this team in cap space hell, he's a genius when it comes to contracts.

There is already a thread for this discussion.

https://www.49erswebzone.com/forum/niners/98000-49ers-2019-cap-space18587391/page93/