{"id":488711,"date":"2026-02-25T01:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T01:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/488711\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T01:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T01:58:07","slug":"report-49ers-trent-williams-may-go-separate-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/488711\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: 49ers, Trent Williams may go separate ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 49ers and tackle Trent Williams are in a sudden stare down.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, 37, enter the final year of his contract, with $32 million in non-guaranteed base pay and a cap number of $38.841 million. Via Adam Schefter of ESPN.com, the player and the team <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/2026401082331771282?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">are \u201cstruggling\u201d to find a solution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Absent a revised agreement, Williams could be released.<\/p>\n<p>The 49ers owe Williams $10 million on April 1. If they\u2019re willing to carry his cap number through March, they could attempt to trade him.<\/p>\n<p>After the 2025 season, Williams declared that <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/trent-williams-ill-be-back-next-season-our-future-is-really-bright\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">he\u2019ll be back<\/a> with the 49ers in 2026. Now, it\u2019s hardly a given.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 49ers and tackle Trent Williams are in a sudden stare down. Williams, 37, enter the final year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-488711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488711","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=488711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}