{"id":489748,"date":"2026-02-25T14:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/489748\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:30:07","slug":"john-lynch-would-take-fairly-strong-offer-to-trade-mac-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/489748\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lynch: Would take &#8220;fairly strong&#8221; offer to trade Mac Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan said last month that he would be \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/kyle-shanahan-id-be-very-surprised-if-mac-jones-isnt-here-next-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">very surprised<\/a>\u201d if Mac Jones is not with the team for the 2026 season, but the 49ers aren\u2019t going to be rejecting calls from other teams about the quarterback. <\/p>\n<p>Jones showed he\u2019s capable of being a starter while Brock Purdy was out of action with a toe injury in 2025 and that could make him a trade target for other teams who aren\u2019t as well stocked at the position as the Niners. On Tuesday, General Manager John Lynch said that any of those teams will have to put together a compelling package in order for the 49ers to think about moving their backup. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s really good for us and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nwagoner\/status\/2026440760871322091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">we value that<\/a>,\u201d Lynch said, via Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com. \u201cAnd so somebody would have to come with something fairly strong for us to consider. And then I don\u2019t know what we do. Obviously there\u2019s always something that would make you [do it], but I think we\u2019re a better team with him on it and we just like having him around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones said this month that he believes he\u2019s \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/mac-jones-ive-proven-i-can-be-a-starter-but-its-a-business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">proven<\/a>\u201d his ability to be a starter, but he\u2019ll need an opportunity as well and it\u2019s not a sure thing that one of them will materialize this offseason. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan said last month that he would be \u201cvery surprised\u201d if Mac Jones is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-489748","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\/489748","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=489748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}