Does the salary cap actually exist for the 49ers? Their big-ticket signings have grabbed plenty of headlines over the last couple of years, but they’ve never managed to run into serious cap problems. That’s due to good cap management, and a reliance on key players either on rookie deals or outperforming cheap free agent contracts.
At some point they’ll have to make hard decisions, like not re-signing Mike McGlinchey or figuring out how to fit Deebo Samuel and Brandon Aiyuk into the receiving corps once Aiyuk is up for an extension.
For now though they’re in a good place spending-wise thanks in part to never going too high or too low on any one position group. With a couple exceptions, the team’s spending is very well-balanced.
We went through position-by-position on the Over the Cap positional spending chart to figure out where San Francisco ranks in spending at each position: