It's amazing how much money the San Francisco 49ers avoided spending during the offseason by making some tough decisions to part ways with several notable starters and role players entering 2025.
Illustrating the point, made by Niner Noise's Luke Morris, "free agents who were on the San Francisco roster a season ago signed deals elsewhere that could be worth up to $341,522,500. Meanwhile, the 10 players the Niners signed that week inked deals worth up to $41,880,000. That $299,642,500 added up to the largest free-agent spending deficit in NFL history by almost $100 million."
A massive chunk of that non-spend came by the way of now-Green Bay Packers left guard Aaron Banks.