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Trent Williams Agrees to a New Deal with the 49ers

All offseason, the 49ers have made it clear that they will do whatever it takes to keep this team together for one more year.

Grant Cohn

Dec 17, 2023; Glendale, Arizona, USA; San Francisco 49ers offensive lineman Trent Williams (71) against the Arizona Cardinals at State Farm Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 17, 2023; Glendale, Arizona, USA; San Francisco 49ers offensive lineman Trent Williams (71) against the Arizona Cardinals at State Farm Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports / mark j. rebilas-usa today sports
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Good news for the 49ers.

Trent Williams reportedly has ended his hold-out and agreed to a new contract. He has reported to the team in Santa Clara and should be on the field for the home opener Monday night against the New York Jets. It remains to be seen if he will practice today.

The terms of Williams' new deal have not yet been reported. He presumably received a sizable raise as well some guaranteed money. He previously had zero guarantees left on his deal. Now he should have some security beyond this season.

It should come as no surprise that the 49ers were able to work something out with Williams. All offseason, the 49ers have made it clear that they will do whatever it takes to keep this team together for one more year. Seemingly every player who requested an extension or a new deal got one. Even right tackle Colton McKivitz got an extension.

What's strange is why the 49ers chose to wait until a week before the regular season opener to make their final offer to Williams. Just a few days ago, it was reported that Williams was unhappy with the negotiations and was threatening to sit out games. Clearly, the 49ers upped their offer at the last minute. Which is fine. But it would have been better to finalize things with Williams weeks ago so he could have participated in training camp and been 100 percent ready for the season.

Now, it's unclear just how ready he'll be.

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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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