Following the 49ers trading up to No. 3 overall in the NFL Draft last week, it was reported the team would not be trading quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo.
Now a week later, it seems the organization would at least listen, as long as the offer is good enough.
What would that be?
According to Sports Illustrated's Albert Breer, the team would need to receive at least a first-round pick in return to even listen to a potential offer.
“I was told that, yes, it’d take a first-round pick for the Niners to listen at this point, which of course would be nice for San Francisco to have after it yielded its firsts in 2022 and ’23 to jump from No. 12 to 3,” Breer wrote. “That, of course, is subject to change. Maybe a veteran stopgap they see as comparable to Garoppolo could come along, and they’d then be motivated to move him (I’m not sure who that would be). Maybe the rookie will arrive and blow everyone away over the summer, and the Niners will want to play him.
“As it stands right now? I don’t think the Niners feel any sort of urgency to move Garoppolo, which makes his market value completely irrelevant in comparison to the Niners’ price.”
Garoppolo is currently under contract with a salary cap hit of $26 million in 2021, but the 49ers have room to keep him as well as a quarterback it selects at No. 3 overall.
Relating to the Patriots, it's unclear if the first-rounder would need to be this year (No. 15 overall) or next year. Regardless, at the moment it is a pretty steep price and unclear if this would be something Bill Belichick and Co. would even entertain.
