Steve Young Expects the 49ers to Release Jimmy Garoppolo

Even Steve Younger thinks the 49ers will not discover a commerce accomplice for Jimmy Garoppolo.

Younger went on KNBR in San Francisco just lately and mentioned what he thinks will occur to Garoppolo. This is what he mentioned.

YOUNG: “You heard Jed York say in April — not that it is a good analogy — that Joe and Steve have been collectively for 4 or 5 years, so we will have Jimmy and Trey (Lance) be collectively. So you recognize that of their minds, they’re open to (Garoppolo returning).

“But when Jimmy requests a launch, I am unable to think about a situation the place they inform him, ‘No, you are going to keep.’ And I am unable to think about Jimmy not attending to the place the place he passes his bodily that he does not ask for his launch. 

“I believe Jimmy most likely will go his bodily after which ask to be launched. When that occurs, I am unable to think about a situation the place they do not give it to him. Perhaps I am fallacious. But when they hold Jimmy, don’t make it a referendum on Trey essentially, and do not assume they’re afraid of the awkwardness, as a result of they are not.”

GRANT’S TAKE: Younger’s logic definitely holds water, however he makes one key assumption: that Garoppolo will go a bodily earlier than the start of the common season. What if he does not go a bodily till after Week 1? Would he request a launch earlier than he is wholesome?

And who’s to say Garoppolo would refuse to be a $27 million backup for a yr? I am guessing Younger would not wish to do this, however he isn’t Garoppolo. And if the 49ers launch Garoppolo, he will not make anyplace close to $27 million this yr on the open market.

I nonetheless have a sense Garoppolo might be on the staff all yr simply so the 49ers can get a third-round compensatory decide when he turns into a free agent. I hope I am fallacious.