49ers Free Agents: What Will It Take to Keep Key 49ers?

January 6, 2015   ·   Peter Panacy   ·   Jump to comments

The San Francisco 49ers are faced with some tough decisions as NFL free agency looms.
San Francisco is pressed up against the salary cap. In 2014, the 49ers had $3,333,160 of unused cap space, which will roll over next season.
It's widely speculated that the NFL salary cap will increase next season between $138 million to $141 million.
But San Francisco's top 51 contracts in 2015 are projected to be at $147,926,194, per Over the Cap. The $3-plus million in cap space from this season will help to a certain extent, but the 49ers will be about $3.5 million over the highest-expected cap projection at the start of the season.
This doesn't leave much wiggle room to re-sign key free agents who will hit the market this offseason.
Many, perhaps all, of these free agents will walk prior to 2015. San Francisco simply doesn't have the financial abilities to sign them. But if the team elected to do such, what would it take? How would each player work into the 49er...

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