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49ers Give Raheem Mostert a Raise

The 49ers did the right thing.

Grant Cohn

The 49ers did the right thing.

They gave running back Raheem Mostert the raise he requested, according to Mostert’s agent, Brett Tessler.

The 49ers reportedly gave Mostert a signing bonus and new incentives which will allow him to earn roughly $5.6 million in 2020, or double what he would have earned before the raise.

What a happy ending to this story. Mostert is a 28-year-old running back who won’t hit free agency again until he’s 30. By then, his career could be over -- running backs take tremendous punishment. And Mostert has outperformed his special-teams deal, so if the 49ers want him to play running back, they should pay him like a running back.

And now, they are.

Here’s what I think happened:

Mostert and Tessler probably spent the offseason communicating with 49ers Executive Vice President Paraag Marathe, who’s in charge of negotiating contracts with players. Marathe is extremely good at his job, but doesn’t always see the full picture. He wants to save the Yorks as much money as possible. That’s what Marathe does, and he does it quite well.

I believe general manager John Lynch stepped in and used his power in the organization to make things right with Mostert. Mostert wasn’t asking for much -- just a couple million extra dollars. The 49ers can afford to give him this raise. And Mostert is important to the team. Lynch should understand this because he’s a former player.

If indeed Lynch saved the day, good for him. He’s valuable to the organization, even if he’s not a scout, because he’s John Freaking Lynch and he has common sense.

What a great way for the 49ers to start training camp.

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Grant Cohn
GRANT COHN

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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