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49ers 2019 ‘Who Is?’ series: Healthy Kwon Alexander for a full year

Kwon Alexander #56 of the San Francisco 49ers (Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images)

The 49ers should be happy Kwon Alexander is back healthy in 2020.

When the San Francisco 49ers inked then-free-agent linebacker Kwon Alexander to a lucrative four-year $54 million contract during the 2019 offseason, it wasn’t hard to raise some eyebrows and ask some serious questions.

After all, Alexander’s new deal was the biggest given to a linebacker, although that record was soon surpassed elsewhere. Yet the diminishing amount of cap space available to the Niners still created some concerns.