Jimmy Garoppolo #10 of the San Francisco 49ers with George Kittle #85 (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images)
Niner Noise takes a look at the 10 SF 49ers players who are scheduled to make the most in 2021.
A few weeks after the SF 49ers‘ 2020 campaign came to a premature close following a 6-10 finish and the failure to make the playoffs, the key focus on “why” centered around the overwhelming number of injuries the team suffered over the course of the season.
In total, the Niners had a whopping $79,422,817 committed to players on injured reserve, and that number actually increases a lot when one considers the number of players who ended up returning from short-term IR stints but weren’t available for much of the regular season.