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Bears extend WR Collin Johnson, sign DB Tarvarius Moore

The Bears announced a pair of roster moves on Friday afternoon.

The Chicago Bears announced a pair of roster moves on Friday afternoon, just a few days before the new league year begins. The Bears re-negotiated/extended wide receiver Collin Johnson and signed defensive back Tarvarius Moore.

Johnson joined the Bears midway through last season after playing the last two years with the New York Giants. He spent much of the year on the practice squad, but appeared in a handful of games and made one reception for 11 yards in the penultimate game of the 2023 season.

Moore, meanwhile, comes to the Bears after spending five seasons with the San Francisco 49ers, from 2018 to 2022. A third-round pick out of Southern Miss, Moore was a depth safety for San Francisco. His best season came in 2020, when he started eight games and recorded 52 total tackles, one for a loss, one forced fumble, and one fumble recovery. He signed with the Green Bay Packers last year, but was placed on injured reserve prior to the regular season and was released.

Packers place LB Tariq Carpenter, S Tarvarius Moore on non-football injury list

The Packers placed Tariq Carpenter and Tarvarius Moore on the non-football injury list to open training camp.

The Green Bay Packers placed linebacker Tariq Carpenter and safety Tarvarius Moore on the non-football injury (NFI) list to open training camp, according to the league’s transaction report.

Veterans reported to camp on Tuesday. The first training camp practice is scheduled for Wednesday.

Carpenter and Moore join rookies Grant DuBose and Camren McDonald on the NFI list. Rashan Gary, Eric Stokes and Jeff Cotton were placed on the physically unable to perform (PUP) list.

Carpenter, a 2022 seventh-round pick, is making the transition to full-time linebacker entering Year 2. Moore, who was once a starter at safety for the 49ers, signed with the Packers in March. Both could be key special teamers for Rich Bisaccia.

Coach Matt LaFleur may be able to provide more information on the return timeline of the two players on Wednesday. Carpenter and Moore were both participants during the offseason workout program.

Although both have a strong chance of making the roster, neither Carpenter nor Moore can afford to miss too many reps during camp. Carpenter is a core special teamer but is now changing positions, while Moore is attempting to win a starting job at safety.

Players placed on the NFI list still count against the 90-man roster but can come off the list at any point. The “non-football injury” designation is used for injuries sustained away from NFL practices or games.

Contract for new Packers S Tarvarius Moore will count less than $1M on 2023 salary cap

New Packers S Tarvarius Moore will have a cap number of $990,000 in 2023.

The contract for new Green Bay Packers safety Tarvarius Moore will count less than $1 million on the salary camp in 2023. As pointed out by Ken Ingalls, Moore signed a “veteran salary benefit” contract that lowers his cap hit this season.

The one-year deal has a base salary of $1,080,000 and a signing bonus of $50,000 but will count only $990,000 on the cap in 2023.

The veteran salary benefit rule was added to the CBA in 2020. The mechanism is used to provide smaller cap hits for veteran players with higher salary minimums. In this case, Moore’s minimum salary as a fifth-year player is $1,080,000, but the veteran salary benefit lowers his cap hit to the amount of the minimum of a player with only two accrued seasons ($940,000). Add in the $50,000 signing bonus, and Moore’s cap hit is $990,000 instead of $1,130,000. In other words, this rule saved the Packers $140,000 on the cap in 2023.

Moore, a third-round pick of the 49ers in 2018, arrives in Green Bay after playing 61 games and making 13 starts in San Francisco. While mostly a special teams player for the 49ers last season, Moore may have a chance to start for the Packers at a position lacking depth and experience at this point of the offseason.

Overall, new deals for Moore, kickoff returner Keisean Nixon, tight end Tyler Davis and long snapper Matt Orzech cost $5,980,000 on the cap in 2023. Contract details weren’t immediately available for safety Rudy Ford or cornerback Corey Ballentine.

Over the Cap has more on Moore’s contract here.

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What to know about new Packers S Tarvarius Moore

A quick scouting report on new Packers safety Tarvarius Moore from our friends at Niners Wire.

The Green Bay Packers added to the secondary on Friday, signing former San Francisco 49ers defensive back Tarvarius Moore.

The 2018 third-round pick has played cornerback and both safety spots over four seasons and 61 games with the 49ers. He brings speed (4.32 at pro day) and experience on special teams (over 1,000 career snaps) to Green Bay, where he’ll likely provide depth at safety and a core special teamer for Rich Bisaccia.

Want to know more about Moore?

Niners Wire editor Kyle Madson provided a quick scouting report:

“Drafted as a free safety, but played CB his first season before moving back to safety. He was the heir apparent to Jimmie Ward at FS, but then Ward played well and got a new deal, so Moore bulked up to prepare for a strong safety job. Then he tore his Achilles in OTAs in 2021 and lost out on that gig. The big thing with him was the Super Bowl in 2019. San Francisco ran a bunch of 3-safety stuff and he played really well — intercepted Patrick Mahomes — just had a really nice outing. He’s a really good athlete whose best position is probably free safety, but he’s versatile enough to play strong or outside CB. At worst he’s a good special teams contributor.”

The Packers official site has five other things to know about Moore:

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Packers sign former 49ers safety Tarvarius Moore

The Green Bay Packers announced the signing of former San Francisco 49ers safety Tarvarius Moore on Friday. 

The Green Bay Packers announced the signing of former San Francisco 49ers safety Tarvarius Moore on Friday.

Moore, a third-round pick of the 49ers in the 2018 draft, is entering his sixth NFL season in 2023. He has played in 61 career games (13 starts).

Moore and long snapper Matt Orzech – a signing also announced on Friday – are the Packers’ first two outside free-agent additions of the 2023 league year.

Moore has played over 1,000 career snaps on special teams and has 26 career special teams tackles.

After starting eight games for the 49ers in 2020, Moore suffered a ruptured Achilles before the 2021 season and didn’t return until 2022. Last season, he played only 41 defensive snaps over 13 games.

In Super Bowl LIV, Moore intercepted Patrick Mahomes but also committed a pass interference penalty on Travis Kelce in the end zone. This past preseason, Moore gave up a long touchdown pass from Jordan Love to Romeo Doubs during the preseason.

Coming out of Southern Miss, Moore ran the 40-yard dash in 4.32 seconds, hit 38.5″ in the vertical leap, covered 11-1 in the broad jump and finished the three-cone drill in 6.95 seconds. His Relative Athletic Score was 9.22 out of 10.0.

Moore (6-1, 200) will have a chance to contribute right away in Green Bay, both at safety and on special teams. Adrian Amos, Rudy Ford and Dallin Leavitt remain free agents at the safety position.

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Packers host free agent visit for S Tarvarius Moore

The Packers hosted free agent S Tarvarius Moore for a visit on Thursday, but no deal was announced.

The Green Bay Packers hosted veteran safety Tarvarius Moore on a free agent visit on Thursday, according to the league’s transaction report. No deal was announced.

Moore, 26, was a third-round pick of the San Francisco 49ers in 2018. The 6-2, 200-pounder has played in 61 career games with 13 starts over four seasons.

The Packers have an obvious need at safety considering the free-agent status of Adrian Amos, Rudy Ford and Dallin Leavitt and the likely transition for Darnell Savage into the slot.

Moore has produced zero interceptions, six pass breakups and 108 tackles during his regular-season NFL career. During Super Bowl LIV, he intercepted Patrick Mahomes but also committed a costly defensive pass interference penalty on Travis Kelce.

Moore started eight games for the 49ers in 2020 but then missed the entire 2021 season after rupturing his Achilles in June. He returned in 2022 but played just 41 defensive snaps over 13 games.

Moore has extensive special teams experience. He played at least 200 snaps in all four NFL seasons and has played 1,096 special teams snaps overall.

He’s also a terrific athlete. Coming out of Southern Miss in 2018, Moore ran the 40-yard dash in 4.32 seconds, hit 38.5″ in the vertical leap, covered 11-1 in the broad jump and finished the three-cone drill in 6.97 seconds, creating a Relative Athletic Score of 9.22.

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Watch: Sweet play by CB Samuel Womack sets up another 49ers INT

Watch: Samuel Womack is really good.

49ers rookie cornerback Samuel Womack has been exceptional in the preseason and if he hadn’t already cemented his job as the starting nickel cornerback, he should’ve sealed it Thursday in Houston. After a 49ers turnover, the defense generated a takeaway in the red zone when Womack wrestled a pass away from a Texans receiver. The ensuing tip went right to safety Tarvarius Moore who hauled it in for his first interception of the preseason.

49ers injury update after rocky start to offseason

A look at the players with availability and injury concerns for the 49ers going into training camp.

The 49ers’ 2020 season was marred by injury and absences due to COVID-19. Turning the calendar to 2021 hasn’t provided much relief so far.

Through just a handful of rookie minicamps and organized team activities, the club still finds itself with injury concerns and availability issues going into training camp.

Perhaps camp and the offseason will see the tide turn in this area, but for now it remains a sizable problem for San Francisco heading into an important season for their coaching staff and front office.

Here’s a list of players with availability concerns going into camp:

Jimmie Ward hints at possible wrinkle for 49ers defense

Jimmie Ward hinted his role at free safety could see some changes this year for the 49ers.

49ers defensive end Arik Armstead doesn’t anticipate any changes to his role this season. Free safety Jimmie Ward doesn’t share that sentiment about his place in the secondary.

Ward on Tuesday was on a video conference call with 49ers reporters and discussed what he anticipates his role being this season. After explaining that he signed to play safety and not corner — which he played at various points for the 49ers during his first five seasons — Ward went on to drop a hint that some new wrinkles could be coming in the 49ers’ pass defense.

“Just make sure you watch that first game because I could be anywhere,” Ward said per the Sacramento Bee. “Could be playing safety, could be man coverage, could be blitzing, could be playing zone, who knows? We’ll see.”

It would seem counterintuitive to start tinkering with a defense that finished No. 1 in the NFL last season against the pass. The NFL is a league of adjustments though so seeing a version of the 49ers’ defense that utilizes Ward’s versatility more freely wouldn’t be a huge surprise. He’s capable of lining up at outside corner and spent some time covering in the slot last year — most notably coming up with a pair of pass breakups at the end of the 49ers’ Week 6 win over the Rams.

Defensive backs coach and pass game coordinator Joe Woods exited in the offseason and opened the door for Tony Oden to take over as the DB coach, and Mike Rutenberg to take over as the pass game coordinator. They could throw in some of their own new wrinkles to the secondary, but it’s worth noting we may have gotten a glimpse of those impending changes during the Super Bowl.

Backup free safety Tarvarius Moore played five defensive snaps in the Super Bowl while Ward and strong safety Jaquiski Tartt each played 100 percent. That three safety look generated a pass breakup and an interception for Moore and freed up Ward to roam elsewhere on the field in coverage.

The sample size is small, but the change worked well enough to wonder whether San Francisco will deploy it more this season. It seems like something of that sort could be coming based on what Ward intimated in his Tuesday press conference, and with Moore a possible long-term option at safety for the 49ers, it would make sense if they tried to get him on the field more often.

Ward was very good in his role as San Francisco’s free safety last season. Now he could be expanding that in a year where the 49ers pass defense has a steep hill to climb to put on an encore performance.

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5 49ers who could take on larger roles in 2020

Dante Pettis headlines a group of players that may have a bigger impact on the 49ers roster next season.

The 49ers in 2020 will return largely the same group of players they took to the Super Bowl last season. It stands to reason that most of last year’s key players will again emerge as essential pieces for San Francisco on both sides of the ball.

There are a handful of players from last year’s roster though that could wind up making a bigger impact in 2020 than they did in 2019. Despite the fact they’ll return most of their stars, the 49ers will need some additional players to step into larger roles next season to repeat a deep playoff run. Here are five players that could wind up securing bigger roles:

WR Dante Pettis

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This seems inconceivable given how Pettis’ second NFL season went. He caught just 11 passes for 109 yards and two touchdowns in a year where he was supposed to emerge as a No. 1 receiver. In fact, he fell so far out of the rotation that he wasn’t even active for the Super Bowl.

It’s easy to just give up on the former second-round pick, but he flashed enough toward the end of his rookie year to provide some optimism that he can be a contributor in a good receiving corps. It’s a make-or-break third season for Pettis, who’ll go into the year battling  for a roster spot. If he responds well to that challenge, he could emerge as a reliable target in a receiving corps that desperately needs a playmaker or two to step up.

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