{"id":129041,"date":"2025-09-03T06:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T06:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/129041\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T06:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T06:14:10","slug":"49ers-news-russell-gage-is-being-released-marquez-valdes-scantling-promoted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/129041\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers news: Russell Gage is being released; Marquez Valdes-Scantling promoted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter tweeted that the San Francisco 49ers are releasing wide receiver Russell Gage from the active roster. Per Schefter, the plan is to re-sign Gage to the practice squad and elevate him for Sunday\u2019s game against the Seattle Seahawks. Of course, the caveat would be if Gage doesn\u2019t sign elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Aaron Wilson tweeted that the 49ers are promoting Marquez Valdes-Scantling to the 53-man roster from the practice squad. So, the two are effectively swapping spots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Why? It could be contract-related. There are times when a player\u2019s contract becomes fully guaranteed if he\u2019s on the active roster. At the same time, Valdes-Scantling\u2019s contract is around the veteran minimum since the Seattle Seahawks guaranteed his deal. So, perhaps this is a procedural move to help the 49ers save anywhere between $700,000 and $1 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If Gage doesn\u2019t sign somewhere else, Brock Purdy will be throwing to both players this Sunday. So, while it impacts the 49ers financially, both receivers should be on the active roster come Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter tweeted that the San Francisco 49ers are releasing wide receiver Russell Gage from the active&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,71438,47545,2745,99],"class_list":["post-129041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco-49ers-free-agency","tag-san-francisco-49ers-roster","tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}