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SF 49ers: Which high-paid core player leaves team first?

Dee Ford #55 of the San Francisco 49ers (Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images)

The SF 49ers are financially committed to a number of high-profile players, but keeping them all may be difficult and someone might have to go.

This is simple: The SF 49ers have a lot of good young players on their roster. Good players want to get paid like good players as soon as they can, and that ultimately drives up a team’s total payroll. There’s a cap on that payroll that varies year to year. Usually, it goes up.