The 49ers and tackle Trent Williams will continue their relationship.
Williams’s representation has announced that the team and the player have agreed to terms on a two-year, $50 million contract.
The deal, per the agent, includes $37 million fully guaranteed and a $22 million signing bonus.
The news comes less than two months after the alarm was sounded on a potential split between Williams and the 49ers. From the ESPN report, which landed during the Scouting Combine: “With five-time All-Pro left tackle Trent Williams scheduled to carry a $39 million cap number this season, he and the 49ers currently are struggling to find a contractual solution, per league sources. If the two sides can’t bridge their differences in their standoff, Williams would be expected to join this year’s free-agent class, making him one of the premier players available.”
The 49ers never expressed anything other than optimism that a solution would be reached.
The problem wasn’t the $39 million cap number. It was the $32 million compensation package.
It’s unclear from the tweet whether the new deal is an extension or a replacement of the 2026 package; subsequent tweets from others call it an extension. If it’s an extension, he now has a three-year, $82 million deal. Which creates the rare situation in which the new money average of $25 million is lower than the average from signing, at $27.33 million.
The tweet announcing the deal also claims that the deal makes Williams the first non-quarterback to surpass $400 million in contracts. That is incorrect. The new deal, if completed, would at best get him to $300 million.
Which is still nothing to sneeze at. But it’s not $400 million. Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford is the only player in league history to get past that number.
