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Will the 49ers Extend Jordan Mason's Contract this Offseason?

They should.

Grant Cohn

Sep 22, 2024; Inglewood, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers running back Jordan Mason (24) runs the ball against the Los Angeles Rams rduring the first half at SoFi Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images
Sep 22, 2024; Inglewood, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers running back Jordan Mason (24) runs the ball against the Los Angeles Rams rduring the first half at SoFi Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images / Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images
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The 49ers will have to make a big decision about Jordan Mason this offseason.

Mason will be a restricted free agent when the new league year begins on March 12. That means if the 49ers place a tender on him, they can match any offer another team makes. If the 49ers choose not to match the offer and let Mason sign elsewhere, they could receive a draft pick in compensation.

Last year, Jauan Jennings was a restricted free agent and the 49ers gave him a second-round tender, which discouraged other teams from signing him because they would have to send the 49ers a second-round pick.

Jennings surprisingly did not sign his tender. Instead, he and his agent pushed for a contract extension which the 49ers ultimately gave him. On May 29, 2024, Jennings signed a two-year, $15.4 million extension with the 49ers, which seemed like a lot at the time considering Jennings was coming off a 19-catch season. Now, he's coming off a 77-catch season and the deal looks like a bargain.

Which brings us back to Mason. He's an ascending player like Jennings was last year. There is absolutely no reason to let Mason leave the team now, especially when they don't know if Christian McCaffrey ever will be durable again.

The 49ers would be wise to give Mason a modest two-year extension.

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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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