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Will the 49ers Make a Splashy Move this Offseason?

It's not in the 49ers' nature to do nothing. They tend to make big, big moves, at least one per year.

Grant Cohn

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Technically, the 49ers don't have to do much of anything this offseason. They just lost the Super Bowl by three points in overtime -- they were a play or two away from being Champions. And they still believe they're the best team in the NFL even though they've yet to prove it.

But it's not in the 49ers' nature to do nothing. They tend to make big, big moves, at least one per year.

Remember, they traded for Dee Ford, signed Kwon Alexander, traded for Trent Williams, signed Charvarius Ward, traded for Christian McCaffrey, signed Javon Hargrave, traded for Chase Young, etc.

Why would they stop making splashy moves all of a sudden?

They have Brock Purdy on an extremely cheap rookie deal for one more year -- this is their shot. Next season will be their best opportunity to win a Super Bowl in a long time and they have to take advantage.

If the 49ers want to make a big splashy move in the next few weeks, they could try to weaken the one team in their way -- the Chiefs -- by trading for their shutdown cornerback L'Jarius Snead. The Chiefs just gave him the franchise tag and permission to seek a trade because they don't intend on extending his contract. And the 49ers have established that they love acquiring Chiefs castoffs (see Ford and Ward).

A secondary of Snead, Ward, Deommodore Lenoir, Talanoa Hufanga and Ji'Ayir Brown would be as good as any secondary in the NFL.

Don't be surprised if the 49ers go big.

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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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