{"id":873622,"date":"2026-04-24T15:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/873622\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:54:19","slug":"49ers-create-11-6m-in-cap-space-by-restructuring-osa-odighizuwas-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/873622\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers create $11.6M in cap space by restructuring Osa Odighizuwa&#8217;s contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco 49ers remain focused on evaluating their options in the 2026 NFL Draft, but they also carved out time this week for a key salary-cap move.<\/p>\n<p>According to Spotrac, the 49ers created $11.6 million in cap space by restructuring defensive tackle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/O\/OdigOs00.htm\" data-playername=\"Osa Odighizuwa\" title=\"Osa Odighizuwa stats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Osa Odighizuwa<\/a>&#8216;s contract. The team converted $14.5 million of his salary into a signing bonus, allowing the cap hit to be prorated over multiple years.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/49ers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#49ers<\/a> converted $14.5M of Osa Odighizuwa&#8217;s salary into signing bonus, creating $11.6M of cap space.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Spotrac (@spotrac) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spotrac\/status\/2047521566049620433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 49ers acquired Odighizuwa this offseason by trading their third-round pick to the Dallas Cowboys, adding a proven presence to the interior defensive line. He is entering his sixth NFL season.<\/p>\n<p>Following the restructure, Odighizuwa&#8217;s 2026 base salary drops to $1.715 million, with a 2026 cap hit of $5.122 million, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/72455\/osa-odighizuwa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotrac<\/a>. However, that cap hit is set to rise significantly, jumping to $23.4 million in each of the next two seasons, starting in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers remain focused on evaluating their options in the 2026 NFL Draft, but they also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,7,6,9115,1161,252,2624,2623],"class_list":["post-873622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco-49ers","tag-49ers","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-osa-odighizuwa","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-sanfrancisco","tag-sanfrancisco49ers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116460497378081240","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873622","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=873622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}