Niners punter Wishnowsky gets 4-year extension

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Heading into the 2022 season, all three of the San Francisco 49ers specialists had been scheduled to be unrestricted free brokers after this season. Not anymore.

The Niners introduced Friday that they signed punter Mitch Wishnowsky to a four-year contract extension that can maintain him in San Francisco by means of the 2026 season. The extension is value as much as $13 million, sources advised ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

Wishnowsky was initially a fourth-round choice (No. 110 total) within the 2019 NFL draft. In three-plus seasons with the group, he has performed in 50 video games, averaging 41.2 yards per punt with 72 punts contained in the opponents’ 20.

In 2021, he earned NFC particular groups participant of the week honors in Week 2 and NFC particular groups participant of the month for September.

Final month, normal supervisor John Lynch mentioned the group was trying into attainable extensions with gamers who had been set to change into free brokers after the season. Wishnowsky is the primary to signal an extended pact for the reason that Niners prolonged receiver Deebo Samuel on July 31.

Kicker Robbie Gould and lengthy snapper Taybor Pepper are nonetheless slated to change into unrestricted free brokers in 2023.