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Will the 49ers be Trade Deadline Sellers if They Lose to the Cowboys?

If the 49ers lose to the Cowboys, grumblings in the 49ers' locker room could become much louder. Veterans who aren't part of the 49ers' future might want a fresh start elsewhere. And the 49ers might want to play younger players.

Grant Cohn

Oct 6, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers cornerback Charvarius Ward (7) after the game against the Arizona Cardinals at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-Imagn Images
Oct 6, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers cornerback Charvarius Ward (7) after the game against the Arizona Cardinals at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-Imagn Images / Kelley L Cox-Imagn Images
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The 49ers are at the crossroads.

If they beat the Cowboys this Sunday, they'll be 4-4 heading into their bye week. They might even be in first place in the NFC West. They'll feel better about themselves and hopeful about the rest of the season with Christian McCaffrey poised to return from bilateral Achilles tendonitis.

But if they lose to the Cowboys, they'll be 3-5, and they would have lost to a sorry team they've beaten three times in a row. The Cowboys are not good. If the 49ers can't beat them, their season could spiral into chaos,

"The 49ers still believe they have what it takes to power through," writes Michael Silver of The Athletic. "A defeat to the Cowboys, whose most recent game was a 47-9 home defeat to the Detroit Lions that compelled owner Jerry Jones to boil over on his weekly radio show, might change Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch’s thinking a little. They might be tempted to entertain trade offers for, say, starting cornerback Charvarius Ward, a second-team All-Pro in 2023 who hasn’t looked nearly as good this season, and whose contract expires next spring."

To Silver's point, if the 49ers lose to the Cowboys, grumblings in the 49ers' locker room could become much louder. Veterans who aren't part of the 49ers' future might want a fresh start elsewhere. And the 49ers might want to play younger players.

The 49ers recently beat the Seahawks without Ward on the field. Maybe they feel he's expendable.

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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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