Cornerback Nate Hobbs has found a new team.
Hobbs has agreed to sign with the 49ers. Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that he has agreed to a one-year deal worth up to $4.5 million.
Hobbs was released by the Packers this week, so he moved quickly to find another place to play.
The 2025 season was Hobbs’s first in Green Bay and he had 27 tackles in 11 games for the Packers before landing on injured reserve with a knee injury. He had 281 tackles, three interceptions, three sacks, three forced fumbles and a fumble recovery over four seasons with the Raiders.
Hobbs will join a cornerback group that also includes Deommodore Lenoir, Renardo Green and Upton Stout.
49ers defensive end Bryce Huff turns 28 next month. He was due a $1 million roster bonus on Friday.
Huff, though, called it quits on Thursday, posting a video on social media sharing the news.
“I’m retiring from football,” Huff said. “I started playing football when I was 4 years old. Growing up, I wasn’t the biggest or the strongest, and I didn’t have many friends. All I really had was the game. Football kept me grounded. It gave me something to hold onto.”
The 49ers traded for Huff before the 2025 season, and he appeared in 15 games with eight starts. He totaled 30 tackles, six tackles for loss, and 15 quarterback hits while adding four sacks and two forced fumbles.
Huff entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent with the Jets in 2020. He spent four seasons in New York before signing with the Eagles in 2024, where he was part of the team’s Super Bowl LIX roster.
In his career, Huff recorded 108 tackles, 24 sacks, four passes defensed and four forced fumbles.
Dre Greenlaw is headed back to the Bay.
After being released by the Broncos this week, Greenlaw has agreed to return to the 49ers on a one-year deal, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Media.
The deal is reportedly worth $7.5 million.
Greenlaw, 28, was a fifth-round pick in the 2019 draft. He played his first six seasons with the 49ers, becoming a critical part of the club’s defense. He suffered a torn Achilles during Super Bowl LVIII — which San Francisco eventually lost to Kansas City in overtime — before coming back to play two games late in the season for the club in 2024.
After signing with the Broncos as a free agent last year, he played eight games with seven starts in 2025. He finished the year with 43 total tackles, two tackles for loss, and two quarterback hits along with an interception, a forced fumble, and one sack.
Greenlaw has appeared in 72 career games with 63 starts, recording four interceptions, 16 passes defensed, 4.5 sacks, and 20 tackles for loss.
Wide receiver Mike Evans opted to make a major change this offseason when he left Tampa after 12 seasons in order to sign with the 49ers.
Evans met the media for the first time since agreeing to switch teams for the first time in his NFL career and said he considered a number of options before deciding to move forward with the Niners. He noted that the team is coming off of a strong season that ended with a loss to the Seahawks in the divisional round of the playoffs and shared his belief that they “were one piece away” from going all the way.
“I feel like I am that piece,” Evans said, via multiple reporters.
The 49ers never had Brandon Aiyuk last season and he’s expected to be released soon. Kendrick Bourne has agreed to sign with the Cardinals and Jauan Jennings appears likely to depart as a free agent as well, so the 49ers may still need to add some more pieces to the receiver room even with Evans in the fold.
The Dolphins announced that they’ve re-signed three players on Thursday and they also agreed to terms with an addition to the roster.
Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reports that defensive lineman Robert Beal is set to sign a one-year deal. Beal was not tendered as a restricted free agent by the 49ers.
Beal had 14 tackles in seven games last season and he had 22 tackles and a sack in 18 games over his first two seasons.
The Dolphins have also re-signed defensive lineman Matthew Butler, linebacker Willie Gay, and kicker Riley Patterson. Butler had 12 tackles in 12 games last season while Gay recorded 18 in his 17 appearances. Patterson was 27-of-29 on field goals after being signed to replace the injured Jason Sanders last year.
