Jay wrote:Totally disagree Lyion. Revis is coming off an ACL injury and too much money. There are some stud DBs in the draft that I would prefer to trade up for. 15 draft picks this year. I'd rather spend the free agent money on a WR like Harvin or Wallace and draft a DB.
I can certainly see your point.
Here's what I see as the 49ers needs:
1) Secondary help. Especially this if Goldson signs elsewhere. We absolutely need a good cover CB, and might need a good S, too.
2) DL depth, and a young potential-stud who can be heir apparent and understudy to Justin Smith.
3) At least one more really good WR. I assume Moss is gone, but we do get Mario Manningham back from injury, and we still have that AJ Jenkins kid we drafted in the 1st round last year, who didn't play for us at all last year.
So, Revis (if he gets back to his old self), would pretty much exactly fix our biggest need. However, there is no way in hell we can afford someone getting paid a base salary of 15mil a year back there (which is apparently Revis' salary demand), nor is there any way in hell any D player on the 49ers is going to get paid 50% more than Patrick Willis is getting paid. (10mil a year, effectively, on his recent extension) Plus, apparently Chris Mortensen posted something today saying he'd been informed by a source that the 49ers have no interest in Revis. So, there's that.
With Revis out of the question, maybe the 49ers WILL trade for someone like Percy Harvin. Again though, I am not sure I see them blowing that big a hole in their salary cap situation with a potential head case.
Honestly, I think the most likely scenario is this:
1) The 49ers re-sign Goldson to a long-term contract at something like 7.5-8m a year.
2) They do bring in a good WR, but that they can get at something of a discount. Wes Welker, maybe? If they are going to spend big at the position, Greg Jennings might be an option here, as he's a good character guy by all accounts, and seemed to have regained his pre-injury form when he came back last year. That injury history might keep his price down to reasonable levels too.
3) They package a big chunk of their picks in order to move up to 2 early 1st rounders, and take a top-flight cover corner, and a young stud DL. Use all remaining picks to draft depth, etc. One article I raid suggested the 49ers will take a mid-round flier on that injured South Carolina RB, Lattimore, who was originally graded as the #1 RB of his class before his injury, but now might not be able to play at all in 2013. Apparently he's been talking to Frank Gore regularly, given the similarity of their situatiosn coming out of college, and the 49ers think highly of him. Gore can't go forever, so probably well worth spending a 4th or so on Lattimore, stash him on the PUP list for 2013, then see what he can do in 2014.
-Arlos