Trent Williams signed a two-year, $50 million contract this offseason, with $37 million fully guaranteed.
The 49ers left tackle, who turns 38 next month, goes into his 17th season thinking the 2027 season will “probably” be his last. He called that thought “scary.”
“I’m toying between the idea of going until I can’t no more and just leaving while I’ve still got some good product left and I get ran out of the league,” Williams said, via video from the team. “It’s been a long time. I had a daughter that she was born three months before I got drafted, so I’m going on year 17 and she’s turning 17. As a father, you feel like I’ve kind of felt like I missed her whole life.”
Williams wants to spend more time with his family, but he also knows his competitiveness might win out after the 2027 season if he’s still performing at a Pro Bowl level.
“There’s little stuff I’ve got to think about,” Williams said. “Obviously, I can’t tell the future. I don’t know. I’m still a competitor. It’s hard not to compete when you can, so we’ll see.”
Williams made his 12th Pro Bowl in 2025 and earned second-team All-Pro honors, so he still is playing at a high level.
Myles Garrett went from the Browns to the Rams this week. While the AFC North celebrated, the NFC West went to work.
49ers offensive line coach Chris Foerster admitted the trade took him by surprise, prompting him immediately to start watching film of the reigning Defensive Player of the Year.
“I just wanted to remind myself because it kind of came out of left field,” Foerster said Tuesday, via David Bonilla of 49erswebzone.com.
In the 49ers’ 26-8 win over the Browns last season, Garrett had a sack and three quarterback hits. He did not have a sack and only one quarterback hit in the Browns’ 19-17 victory over the 49ers in 2023.
“He made a couple plays, and then you’re like, ‘Let me go back and look at the tape and see what it really was,’” Foerster said. “And he’s a great player. He got after us, yeah, but we did have a plan. The plan was somewhat effective, and so, there’s other ways to do things as well.”
The 49ers play the Rams in Week 1 in Melbourne, Australia, in Garrett’s debut with his new team.
The 49ers were getting a plan ready for Jared Verse. Now, they have to contend with Garrett.
“I think Myles Garrett, he’s an all-time great pass rusher,” Foerster said. “He’s an unbelievable talent, but it’s still an edge rusher that you have to take care of.
“He’s an outstanding football player, and he’s going to be a challenge for us to take care of. But we had a plan last year. You’re going to do the best you can, and everybody has good players, and he’s a great player. And it’s good for them, helps them, and it’ll be a good challenge for us.”
The 49ers won’t be holding a mandatory minicamp this offseason.
The team was scheduled to hold that minicamp on June 9 and 10, but a team official told Matt Maiocco of NBC Sports Bay Area that head coach Kyle Shanahan has called it off. The team’s 100 percent attendance at this week’s voluntary work was cited as the reason for the decision.
One more OTA session is scheduled for Thursday and that now stands as the last day of offseason work for the Niners before they get back together for training camp this summer.
The 49ers haven’t announced their schedule for camp yet, but they’ll have a little more time to sort out those details with no other work on the calendar for next week.
Six months ago, 49ers wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk posted video of himself driving more than 100 mph in a 40 mph zone. Now Aiyuk is facing misdemeanor charges for the incident.
An arrest warrant has been issued for Aiyuk on a misdemeanor charge of exhibition of speed, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office told the California Post.
The video that Aiyuk posted to his YouTube channel showed him driving 104 mph past Levi’s Stadium, where the 49ers play their home games. Aiyuk later apologized for the video.
Aiyuk’s career has declined rapidly since he tore his ACL in Week Seven of the 2024 season. Aiyuk hasn’t played a single snap since then, and the 49ers voided the guaranteed money remaining on his contract, saying he refused to rehab at the team facility.
Although Aiyuk is still on the 49ers’ roster, he is highly unlikely to play for the 49ers again. General Manager John Lynch has said that the team wants to trade Aiyuk. If no team wants to trade for him, he’ll likely be released.
Chris Godwin has spent nine seasons in the NFL, all of them with Mike Evans as his teammate. When Evans decided to leave in free agency for the 49ers, Godwin didn’t accept it.
“Honestly, I didn’t believe it,” Godwin told reporters on Tuesday, via Jenna Laine of ESPN. “I mean, there’s a bunch of stuff on the Internet that you can’t really believe, a lot of AI stuff. So I didn’t really believe it. And then I texted [quarterback Baker Mayfield]. I was like, ‘Yo, is this for real?’ And he was like, ‘Sad face [emoji].’”
Evans and Godwin are first and second in franchise history for catches, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns. Now, Evans is gone.
“I think it’s part of the game, unfortunately,” Godwin said. “Mike is -- I mean, we all know what Mike has been to this community and this organization. That’s my brother and I wish him the best and his time in San Fran. I’m sure that they know what kind of player that they’re getting.
“I mean, obviously it’s going to be difficult that he’s not here. And I think anytime you’re missing Mike, that’s a tough situation. But fortunately we have a room full of guys that are ready to go.”
Evans, a first-round pick in 2014, left Tampa Bay with credentials that may already be good enough to get him into the Hall of Fame. In San Francisco, Evans gets an opportunity to win his second career Super Bowl.
Assuming the 49ers can compete with the Seahawks, who won Super Bowl LX, and the Rams, who are loading the cannon for a Super Bowl run of their own.
