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Finding Free Agents: Ben Garland would be a capable short-term answer at center

In our 2020 iteration of Finding Free Agents, we’ll attempt to answer three questions for each player: Why would the Seahawks be interested? What would their contract look like? What is the likelihood they reach free agency? Throughout the series, we’ll be focused on specific positions of need in Seattle: Wide receiver, offensive line, defensive tackle and EDGE.

Disaster struck the 49ers in Week 14, when starting center Weston Richburg was lost for the season with a torn patellar tendon. Kyle Shanahan’s outside zone-heavy offense depends on a mobile center, and Richburg is one of the game’s most athletic players in the middle.