It is starting to look like all of the talk from the 49ers regarding their feelings and plans for veteran quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo hasn’t been just a smoke screen after all.
After San Francisco drafted Trey Lance with the third pick in the draft, it was easy to question how sincere the organization was when it said it planned for Garoppolo to continue as the starter and it would be willing to keep his current contract in place. With a salary cap hit of $26.4 million for 2021 and $27 million in 2022, it seemed as though the 49ers front office was simply trying to pump up Garoppolo’s value for a possible trade.