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49ers general manager John Lynch said recently that he has no doubt that a healthy Jimmy Garoppolo will be the team’s first full-back in the 2021 season, but added that Garoppolo’s injury history means that the team must have “better options “to support you from what they did last year.
One of the options they are considering spent the 2020 season as a full-back in Carolina. Joseph Person of TheAthletic.com reports that the 49ers called the Panthers about a possible exchange for Teddy Bridgewater.
It is not known if the conversation reached a point where the teams were discussing an offer, but a move involving Bridgewater would come as no surprise. The team would be willing to trade him for Lions as part of his offer for Matthew Stafford and his interest in running a race at Deshaun Watson when and if he were made available multiple times.
Bridgewater has a base salary of $ 17 million and an upper limit of just under $ 23 million in 2021. A deal would leave $ 10 million in dead money at the Panther limit.