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Should the 49ers Trade for Jamal Adams?

This is tres interessant.

Grant Cohn

This is tres interessant.

All Pro strong safety Jamal Adams doesn’t want to play for the Jets anymore, and the 49ers are one of seven teams he’d like to join, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The other six teams are the Ravens, Cowboys, Texans, Chiefs, Eagles and Seahawks.

Adams is a great player -- probably the best strong safety in the NFL. And the 49ers could have drafted him in 2017, but drafted Solomon Thomas instead. Whoops!

Now, the 49ers have a chance to correct their error from three years ago and trade for Adams. He would greatly improve the entire defense, not just the secondary. And the 49ers probably could trade Jaquiski Tartt and a first-round pick in 2021 to the Jets for Adams.

But I don’t think the 49ers will.

They already traded their third-round pick in 2021 for left tackle Trent Williams. And they might need to trade their second-round pick for a wide receiver at the deadline if Deebo Samuel’s fractured foot hasn’t recovered and the young receivers haven’t stepped up.

Plus, the 49ers had just five draft picks this year. They can’t keep trading away cheap, valuable assets. The 49ers need their draft picks.

Plus, they have little cap space and lots of expensive players who will be free agents in 2021. Players such as Trent Williams and George Kittle. If the 49ers trade for Adams, they might have to let Williams and Kittle go. And that’s a trade I doubt the 49ers want to make.

Meaning Adams is enticing, but unrealistic for the 49ers.

Too bad they didn’t draft him three years ago.

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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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