{"id":597503,"date":"2026-04-21T11:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/597503\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:59:11","slug":"john-lynch-we-want-trent-williams-name-and-number-up-in-those-rafters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/597503\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lynch: We want Trent Williams’ name and number “up in those rafters”"},"content":{"rendered":"

49ers General Manager John Lynch confirmed the team has reached a two-year deal with left tackle Trent Williams. The two-year, $50 million contract includes $37 million fully guaranteed<\/a> and a $22 million signing bonus.<\/p>\n

Williams is entering his seventh season with the 49ers.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I told Trent when we started this thing, my hope is that his name, his number are up in those rafters<\/a> with a lot of great players that have played here,\u201d Lynch said Monday, via David Bonilla of 49erswebzone.com. \u201cThere\u2019s a buzz in the building. The players are back. It\u2019s the first day back for phase one [of the offseason program], but there\u2019s a buzz because of what Trent means to this place. So, we\u2019re very excited.\u201d<\/p>\n

The uncertainty about Williams\u2019 contract situation led many to mock a left tackle to the 49ers with the 27th overall pick. Williams\u2019 new agreement eases the urgency to find a potential successor, though Lynch insists the 49ers always were going to draft the best player available. <\/p>\n

\u201cProbably not a whole lot,\u201d Lynch said of how the agreement changes the 49ers\u2019 approach to the draft. \u201cI think, in general, what free agency did this year, what signing a guy like Trent and having some finality there, probably leaves you a little more comfortable in various scenarios. But I think what I liked about what we did in free agency this year is that there\u2019s not a ton of needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lynch had a \u201cgreat deal of confidence\u201d all along that the 49ers would get a deal completed with Williams, even as a report indicated a possible split between the 12-time Pro Bowler and the team. Now, they expect to have Williams as their starting left tackle for the next two years, giving them at least two years to find a successor.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did a two-year deal with Trent, with great confidence that Trent\u2019s going to be here for a couple of years,\u201d Lynch said. \u201cThe way he takes care of himself, where his heart\u2019s at. I think in the inception of this offseason, what I did \u2014 I sat down with Trent, \u2018Where you at, man? What\u2019s on your mind? What\u2019s on your heart?\u2019 And so that gave us a great feel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"49ers General Manager John Lynch confirmed the team has reached a two-year deal with left tackle Trent Williams.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-597503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597503","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=597503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}