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Restructured contract could give 49ers massive financial advantage
Trent Williams' new deal with the San Francisco 49ers may end up helping the team in more ways than one.
Getting back one of the league's most important offensive linemen is huge for the 49ers, but Williams also freed up about $23.8 million in 2026 salary cap space, according to Spotrac. Williams' renegotiated deal will pay the 37-year-old $24.5 million this season, which is down from $33 million. If this ends up being the case, the 49ers will have a league-high $67 million in cap space dedicated to their top-51 contracted players.
This gives the 49ers a lot of flexibility during the 2026 season to make some moves if they want. The team still has some needs they can address at edge rusher and cornerback despite drafting at those positions this year. One name that jumps out is edge rusher Joey Bosa, the older brother of Nick Bosa, who 49ers general manager John Lynch once said was too expensive to sign.
The 49ers could also try to add a veteran left guard if they aren't comfortable with Connor Colby or rookie Carver Willis. Some names on the open market include Kevin Zeitler, Joel Bitonio, and Mekhi Becton.
This also gives the 49ers the firepower to make veteran trades. With so much cap space, San Francisco can absorb some big contracts if needed. While they haven't really been linked to either, AJ Brown or Maxx Crosby are the biggest names on the trade market.
This article originally appeared on Niners Wire: 49ers may lead NFL in cap space after Trent Williams contract
Ødegaard og Sørloth på benken fra start
Kapteinen på Arsenal og på Norges landslag er friskmeldt, men starter på benken i den viktige semifnalen i Mesterligaen mot Atletico Madrid tirsdag kveld.
Alexander Sørloth starter også på benken for gjestene.
Det står 1-1 etter det første oppgjøret i Madrid. Ødegaard startet det og, men ble byttet ut til pause. I helgens Premier League-kamp mot Fulham sto Ødegaard over med en skade. Også Sørloth har slitt med en skade de siste kampene.
Slik starter lagene:
Arsenal (4-2-3-1): Raya - White, Saliba, Gabriel, Hincapie - Rice, Lewis-Skelly - Saka, Eze, Trossard - Gyökeres
Atletico Madrid (4-4-2): Oblak - Pubill, Le Normand, Hancko, Ruggeri - Simeone, Koke, Llorente, Lookman - Alvarez, Griezmann
Carson Hocevar adds full Dirt Late Model season schedule to 2026 plans
In addition to his full-time NASCAR Cup Series schedule, Carson Hocevar will also chase points in the FloRaing Night in America Dirt Late Model championship this summer.
The FNIA series is a star-studded midweek Super Late Model championship that avoids conflicts with both the World of Outlaws and Lucas Oil Dirt late Model Series for 11 races at 10 venues to air on streaming platform, FloRacing.
Hocevar, driving a Spire Motorsports entry, will compete in every race across six states from May to November. The season opener is Tuesday night at La Salle Speedway in Illinois.
The recent winner of the Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway has moonlighted in a Dirt Late Model since debuting in The Dream at Eldora in 2022. His background is pavement Late Models but Hocevar has continued to race the dirt car at the Charlotte World Finals and Gaetway Dirt Nationals.
Hocevar finished 10th at the race in the Dome at America's Center over the winter.
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Report: Pelicans narrow down coaching search to four, Trail Blazers may talk to 20 candidates
While the Orlando Magic are just starting their search for a new head coach after firing Jamahl Mosley, Portland and New Orleans are further along in their searches — but those two teams are in very different places.
The Pelicans have narrowed down their list to four candidates, reports Sam Amick at The Athletic.
New Orleans has been deliberating over finalists Darvin Ham (a Bucks associate head coach under Rivers), Steve Hetzel (Brooklyn assistant), Sean Sweeney (San Antonio associate head coach) and Rajon Rondo (a coaching associate with the Bucks). Mosley has long been believed to be a possible candidate if he became available, but it's unclear as of yet if he'll be added to the list.
Rondo is an interesting name. The four-time All-Star point guard has been out of the league for four seasons and is on the radar of a number of general managers, but is he ready for that leap? It has long been expected in league circles that the Magic's Mosley would move to the front of the line in New Orleans if Orlando moved on from him, which it did. Ham was a former head coach with the Lakers, and his name has come up as a possibility in Orlando’s coaching search.
While New Orleans is narrowing down the field, Portland continues to cast a very wide net, reports Amick.
As league sources said on Monday, the Trail Blazers have cast a net so wide that the list of candidates could be almost 20 coaches long and, in the end, will consist of names procured by both Dundon and general manager Joe Cronin. What's more, league sources say, there is no clear messaging as of yet about a possible timeline on the hiring.
While Tiago Splitter did a good job taking over a team a couple of days into the season (after the arrest of Chauncy Billups on alleged gambling charges) and leading the Trail Blazers to a surprise playoff berth, league sources told NBC Sports he does not appear to be a favorite of new owner Tom Dundon, so the door is wide open. Then there is the lingering money question: Rumors circulated that Dundon was trying to get a coach to take the job for $1.5 million or less — mid-major college coach money — the team has pushed back hard on that. Still, the chatter around the league is that Portland is trying to hire on the cheap, whatever that final number is. As Amick notes, it is thought that the least any coach in the league is making is at least $2 million, in Sacramento's Doug Christie (who is keeping his job).
It appears it could be a while before Portland has a coach.
Joe Burrow: Exciting to see Bengals' initiative to get better
Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow was nowhere near a football field on Monday, but his mind was still on the team's prospects.
Burrow attended the Met Gala in New York City and did an interview with Vanity Fair — Burrow wore a suit from Bode, which means we won't get a "The Bengal Wears Prada" headline — while getting ready for the festivities. Burrow was asked about his reaction to the recent trade for defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence as well as earlier moves to add safety Bryan Cook, edge rusher Boye Mafe, defensive tackle Jonathan Allen and safety Kyle Dugger in free agency.
“I’m really excited about the moves we made this offseason,” Burrow said. “We need to get better, so it was exciting to see the initiative from everybody in the organization to realize that we’re in this exciting stage. We’re in our primes playing great football. Finding guys like Dexter and Bryan Cook and [Jacob] Bayer, to, you know, really solidify that defense so the young guys can also kind of rise up. We’re really going to try to achieve what we want to achieve.”
Bayer is a backup offensive lineman who signed to the practice squad last season, so it seems likely that Burrow was actually referring to another one of the defensive acquisitions and something got missed in translation.
Whatever the reference, it's a very different tone from Burrow than the deflated one he shared in some late-season press conferences last year. If that tone is still positive months from now, it will be a sign that the Bengals' offseason maneuvering worked out as hoped.