{"id":335467,"date":"2026-05-28T03:46:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T03:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/335467\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T03:46:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T03:46:49","slug":"49ers-qb-mac-jones-remains-a-bargain-after-receiving-roster-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/335467\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers QB Mac Jones remains a bargain after receiving roster bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"

What\u2019s a great gift for a backup quarterback who prevented a season from spiraling? The San Francisco 49ers<\/a> settled on cash.<\/p>\n

The 49ers have rewarded Mac Jones<\/a> for last season\u2019s stellar fill-in work by giving him a $300,000 roster bonus, according to multiple reports. Jones, 27, who signed a two-year, $7 million contract in 2025, will now earn $3.55 million this season and could pocket $5.8 million if he reaches all his incentives.<\/p>\n

In other words: He\u2019s still a bargain.<\/p>\n

Before his modest bonus, Jones\u2019 average annual salary ($3.5 million) ranked 45th among QBs after a season in which he went 5-3 as a starter and ranked second in the NFL completion percentage (69.6%) while throwing for 2,151 yards with 13 touchdowns and six interceptions (97.4 passer rating). The 49ers went 12-5 last season and reached the divisional playoffs.<\/p>\n

The 49ers were open to trading Jones before last month\u2019s draft, but not unless they received strong compensation for the 2021 first-round pick. Such an offer never materialized.\u00a0On April 23, after the first round, head coach Kyle Shanahan<\/a> sounded disappointed about the lack of trade interest in Jones.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat kind of blew my mind,\u201d\u00a0Shanahan said on KNBR. \u201cDefinitely someone I would be sick (about) if we lost. But we also understand how good of a quarterback he is. So it definitely surprised me a lot. I know what I would have done. But not everyone did that. So good for us that we still get to hold on to a really good quarterback.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones remains the 49ers\u2019 No. 2 behind Brock Purdy<\/a> after providing strong evidence he could be a starter, a title he eventually lost after a debut season in which he finished second in the NFL\u2019s Offensive Rookie of the Year voting.<\/p>\n

In 2025, in his last start, Jones became the third QB in franchise history to complete 30-plus passes with a completion percentage of at least 80%, joining Steve Young and Jeff Garcia. In his penultimate start, Jones had a season-best passer rating (135.2) and joined Young and Joe Montana as the only QBs in franchise history to complete at least 14 consecutive passes to start a game.<\/p>\n

In January, Jones hinted he\u2019d welcome a trade to a team that viewed him as a first-stringer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m on a two-year deal,\u201d Jones said. \u201cBut I do believe I\u2019m a starter in this league. And I\u2019m excited to continue to get better this offseason and see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 49ers are unlikely to deal Jones before the trade deadline on Nov. 17 after not using one of their eight picks on the position in the draft. Their third-string QB, Kurtis Rourke, is a 2025 seventh-round pick who spent his rookie season on the non-football injury list due to a knee injury he suffered in college.<\/p>\n

Jones is scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent in March, when he figures to earn a raise that will dwarf his $300,000 thank-you gift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What\u2019s a great gift for a backup quarterback who prevented a season from spiraling? The San Francisco 49ers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[298,101,296,103,102,104,106,105,127],"class_list":["post-335467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-mac-jones","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}