{"id":848504,"date":"2026-04-02T03:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/848504\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T03:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:12:13","slug":"49ers-have-pushed-more-cap-hits-into-void-years-than-almost-any-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/848504\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers have pushed more cap hits into void years than almost any team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 1, 2026, 5:45 p.m. PT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Adding void years to contracts is a trending move by teams nowadays to spread out signing bonus money over a number of years to lessen the salary cap burden for a particular player deal. It has it&#8217;s pros and cons, mainly that it creates short-term financial flexibility but opens up long-term issues down the line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The idea is even more valuable when you consider how much the salary cap has risen in recent years, as explained in this <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LombardiHimself\/status\/2034671787603054877?s=20\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow\">chart<\/a> from The San Francisco Standard&#8217;s David Lombardi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As Lombardi alluded to, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/san-francisco-49ers\/359\" data-autotag=\"3d4aeb7f-6493-4c2a-8803-2439e4b64ee4\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a> have been one of the more active teams utilizing this concept. The 49ers have the sixth-most salary cap space tied to void years over the next six seasons, according to data from Over The Cap via <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sfdata9ers\/status\/2039073469573288014?s=12\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow\">@sfdata9ers<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The 49ers have $164 million in cap space connected to void years, including $30.8 million in 2027 (fifth in the league that year), $27 million in 2028, $67.5 million in 2029 (second-most in the league that year), $27.3 million in 2030, $11 million in 2031 and none in 2032.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The biggest contracts that include void years aren&#8217;t terribly surprising. They involve some of the biggest contracts handed out by the 49ers in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:6|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Here are the biggest void year salary cap numbers for the next six season on the 49ers, per Over The Cap data:<\/p>\n<p>2027Trent Williams: $20.83 millionDre Greenlaw: $2.5 million2028Trent Williams: $8.59 millionChristian McCaffrey: $13.83 million2029Nick Bosa: $14.39 millionBrandon Aiyuk: $14.55 millionColton McKivitz: $17.79 millionMike Evans: $20.79 million2030George Kittle: $17.66 millionFred Warner: $4.2 millionEddy Pin\u0303eiro: $2.55 million2031<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A lot of these contracts will likely change in the coming, but it&#8217;s a good snapshot of where the 49ers have decided to push cap space into the future rather than take on that money immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 1, 2026, 5:45 p.m. PT Adding void years to contracts is a trending move by teams nowadays&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,95878,7,6,1161,252,2624,2623,96189,96190,95882,99361,96537,97121,101817,97238,100153,96126,97156,99565,96125,95899,96090,95883,97071,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-848504","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-accessfree","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-san-francisco","13":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","14":"tag-sanfrancisco","15":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers","16":"tag-sstssportsnflniners","17":"tag-sstsnniners","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagbrandon-aiyuk","20":"tag-tagbrock-purdy","21":"tag-tagchristian-mccaffrey","22":"tag-tagcolton-mckivitz","23":"tag-tagdre-greenlaw","24":"tag-tageddy-pineiro","25":"tag-tagfred-warner","26":"tag-taggeorge-kittle","27":"tag-tagmike-evans","28":"tag-tagnick-bosa","29":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","30":"tag-tagsan-francisco-49ers","31":"tag-tagsports-news","32":"tag-tagtrent-williams","33":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848504","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=848504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}