The Next Player the 49ers Could Add via Trade

If someone gets injured or a weakness presents itself, the 49ers can trade for another player. Someone good and expensive. And why not? This is the 49ers' year to win the Super Bowl.

Grant Cohn | Oct 11, 2023

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The 49ers traded for Randy Gregory last week, and still might have another move up their sleeve.

That's because the 49ers still have more than $40 million in cap space and almost three weeks until the trade deadline. If someone gets injured or a weakness presents itself, the 49ers can trade for another player. Someone good and expensive. And why not? This is the 49ers' year to win the Super Bowl.

Here are some players who are available for a trade.

Patrick Surtain II

The Broncos are tanking and could have a firesale. Surtain II is 23 and was an All Pro cornerback last season. To get him, the 49ers probably would have to trade a first-round pick and a second-round pick. Might be too expensive.

Brian Burns

The Panthers are terrible and they need draft picks to rebuild. Burns is an elite edge rusher who would net them a first-round pick in a trade. If Randy Gregory works out for the 49ers, they won't need Burns. But if Gregory struggles or misses time as he has throughout his career, the 49ers could splurge for Burns.

Frank Clark

Clark signed with the Broncos this offseason and was Gregory's teammate for a few games. If the Broncos would trade Gregory, they probably would trade Clark, too. He would be more expensive to acquire because he's a better edge rusher than Gregory.

Adoree Jackson

The Giants are 1-4, so they should be sellers at the trade deadline. Jackson is a 28-year-old corner who will be a free agent next season and could be acquired for cheap.

Published Oct 11, 2023

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.