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49ers Ex Destroys Former Team With Blockbuster Trade \u2018Hot Take\u2019<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The San Francisco 49ers and their fans understand the idea of making tough financial decisions \u2026.<\/p>\n

And probably cannot throw stones at the news that the Miami Dolphins finally found a trade-dump partner for veteran defensive back Jalen Ramsey and veteran tight end Jonnu Smith.<\/p>\n

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But Raheem Mostert can.<\/p>\n

The Pittsburgh Steelers come out the winners here as they are the new employers of a pair of Pro Bowl standouts.<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s the problem? Niners ex Mostert – who is also a former starter for those same Dolphins – is roasting Miami for treating its standouts \u201clike (expletive).\u201d<\/p>\n

Mostert carved out a reputation for himself during his time in San Francisco as a productive tough guy whose best season with the franchise came in 2019 when he racked up 952 total yards from scrimmage and 10 touchdowns.<\/p>\n

He was good with the Dolphins, too, but his role decreased last year and he joined the Las Vegas Raiders this offseason.<\/p>\n

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Teams make budget cuts. Most players get that.<\/p>\n

Hey, didn’t San Francisco recently dump Deebo Samuel in a trade largely due to finances? Wasn’t there a roster juggling act performed by GM John Lynch to pay Brock Purdy, George Kittle and Fred Warner that put the squeeze on others?<\/p>\n

But even as all of that is factual, that doesn’t mean\u00a0Mostert’s emotion-driven “hot take” is wrong … even with the burning-bridges risk involved in him so openly and willingly opting to buck the NFL’s salary cap based system that is never going away.<\/p>\n

Related: Kittle To Let Wife And WWE Guide His Retirement Plan from 49ers<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jul 2, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"49ers Ex Destroys Former Team With Blockbuster Trade \u2018Hot Take\u2019 originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The San Francisco…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,2644,1705,39065,7,592,6066,1815,7470,393,251,6,57,7039,1161,252,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-177197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-brock-purdy","10":"tag-deebo-samuel","11":"tag-financial-decisions","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-fred-warner","14":"tag-george-kittle","15":"tag-jalen-ramsey","16":"tag-jonnu-smith","17":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","18":"tag-miami-dolphins","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","21":"tag-raheem-mostert","22":"tag-san-francisco","23":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","24":"tag-sanfrancisco","25":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114787111774565338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}