{"id":778513,"date":"2026-02-26T22:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T22:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/778513\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T22:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T22:22:13","slug":"former-49ers-second-rounder-is-given-an-80-chance-to-get-traded-this-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/778513\/","title":{"rendered":"Former 49ers second-rounder is given an 80% chance to get traded this offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"

Statistically, San Francisco 49ers cornerback Renardo Green is on the leaderboard page for completion percentage allowed, yards per target, and finished 11th in pass breakups in 2025. For a second-year player, that\u2019s about as good as you could ask for someone selected at the end of the second round.<\/p>\n

But something was off this past season. Green missed a couple of games with a neck injury<\/a>. He also had a hamstring injury<\/a> way back in the preseason and a toe injury<\/a> in October. On the field, Green was fortunate to have a couple of missed throws on plays that would have led to potential big plays.<\/p>\n

Under Robert Saleh, Green played a lot more Cover 2 on his side of the field. It didn\u2019t take an expert to figure out Green was not comfortable playing \u201ccloud\u201d coverage. There were two times this season where the Niners yanked Green off the field because he had a mental blunder on his side. The most notable one came in the playoffs. Green\u2019s mistake led to a first down, and his being taken off the field eventually led to a touchdown.<\/p>\n

Is Green\u2019s time up already? ESPN went through the top 15 trade candidates<\/a> this offseason, and Green was listed at No. 9, given one of the highest percentages to be traded at 80 percent:<\/p>\n

Trading Green, who has two years left on his rookie contract, would open yet another hole on the defense. Those are the types of contracts you want to have under the books. Nobody would confuse Green with Richard Sherman or Charvarius Ward, but he\u2019s a B- and far from a liability.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also not as if Raheem Morris fancies big cornerbacks. The Falcons started Mike Hughes, who is 5\u201910\u201d, 190 pounds, in the previous two seasons opposite A.J. Terrell. But if Morris doesn\u2019t feel like Green is his style of cornerback, or if Kyle Shanahan has had enough of the in-game brain farts from Green, then maybe it is time to move on.<\/p>\n

The question I would ask is what Green\u2019s value is, and why would the Niners expect anything higher than a third-round pick? It\u2019s a premium position, so you could possibly get an overpay. Perhaps it\u2019s a draft day trade when a cornerback-needy team misses out on a prospect they like. But then you run the risk of needing to replace Green after free agency passes.<\/p>\n

Creating another hole on the roster doesn\u2019t seem like the 49ers\u2019 way under this regime, but perhaps they have a plan in place already, which is why Green\u2019s given an 80 percent chance to be traded. Three injuries in one season aren\u2019t helping Green\u2019s argument, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Statistically, San Francisco 49ers cornerback Renardo Green is on the leaderboard page for completion percentage allowed, yards per…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,1137,9323],"class_list":{"0":"post-778513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","10":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-rumors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116139271662272094","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778513","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=778513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}