There is a silver lining to the 49ers losing their longest-tenured player this offseason.
San Francisco’s post-June 1 arrival of guarded tackle Arik Armstead made $18 million of every 2024 compensation cap space for the 49ers, per Over the Cap.
Due to various rebuilds, Armstead’s agreement leaves San Francisco with $25.9 million in dead cash to be fanned out over the 2024 and 2025 NFL seasons. The 49ers will have a dead cap hit of $10.3 million this season and $15.6 million of every 2025.
The 30-year-old protective tackle had been with San Francisco for his whole nine-year NFL vocation subsequent to being chosen in the main round of the 2015 draft. The previous 49ers commander marked a three-year, $43 million dollar contract with the Jacksonville Pumas this offseason, later saying he felt “slighted” by San Francisco’s last proposal before he was delivered.
Armstead’s true delivery leaves the 49ers with $25,245,331 in 2024 cap space, per Over the Cap. That gives San Francisco the adaptability to either designate those extra assets toward contract expansions for a central participant like wide recipient Brandon Aiyuk, or possibly roll a substanial piece of it over to the 2025 season when the 49ers will have signficantly less cap space to work with.
Armstead was a conspicuous figure during his time in the Sound Region, filling in as a pioneer on and off the field while routinely serving the Northern California people group with his magnanimous undertakings. The 30-year-old had a talent for moving forward in defining moments, getting done with the second-most season finisher sacks in establishment history (eight), following just Scratch Bosa (10).
As Armstead starts another section in his profession, he leaves his long-lasting group with a memento. How San Francisco chooses to utilize the additional cap space will be a vital storyline as the 2024 NFL season draws near.
